Staff Software Engineer

Requirements:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles within high-scale technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Senior Staff or Principal Engineer level, providing technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Deep hands-on experience building and operating distributed backend systems at scale.

Nice to haves:

• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and scaling developer-facing platforms, internal tooling, or foundational CI/CD infrastructure used by large engineering populations.
• Proven industry engagement, such as contributions to open-source tooling or frameworks, or experience collaborating with external partners on shared technical direction.
• Direct experience with large-scale build systems (e.g., Bazel or similar monorepo tooling) and dependency management at scale.
• Familiarity with data-intensive workflows and distributed systems, or experience building SDKs and internal libraries for other engineering teams.
• Demonstrated comfort leading complex, ambiguous initiatives that require balancing long-term architectural vision with urgent execution needs.

What you'll be doing:

• Define and drive the agentic SDLC vision shaping how all builders at Uber should build features.
• Lead and implement modernization initiatives across multiple orgs to improve developer productivity, reliability, and scalability within large shared-code or monorepo environments.
• Establish technical standards, governance, and consistency by aligning platform direction horizontally across hundreds of engineering teams and multiple geographic locations.
• Balance hands-on technical execution (e.g., platform upgrades, automation, dependency management) with strategic architectural thinking, ensuring near-term stability while building toward a long-term vision.
• Serve as a technical mentor and leader, elevating engineering craft and decision-making for Staff and Senior Staff engineers within the Developer Platform organization.