Job Description
What you'll do
- Lead the design and delivery of major surge pricing and forecasting workstreams end-to-end - from ambiguous problem statement through architecture, rollout, and measurable marketplace impact.
- Set technical direction for real-time pricing systems that serve decision signals to matching, courier pricing, and other downstream consumers at high throughput and low latency.
- Drive engineering rigor across the team: design reviews, operational excellence, and systems that degrade gracefully under extreme demand - and be a calm, decisive presence when production is on the line.
- Partner closely with Applied Science, Product, and Ops to turn models and marketplace insight into robust production systems, and to influence roadmap direction without formal authority.
- Mentor and grow engineers through code review, design guidance, and technical leadership by example.
- Identify and pay down structural technical debt, balancing long-term system health against a fast-moving business.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend development, distributed systems, or real-time data processing.
- Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or functional programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python).
- Track record of leading the design and delivery of complex, multi-quarter projects across team boundaries.
- Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency production services.
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with marketplace, pricing, dispatch, forecasting, or other real-time decision systems where algorithm behavior has direct business impact.
- Experience partnering with data scientists or applied scientists to productionize models and experimental systems.
- Familiarity with real-time data streaming (e.g., Kafka, Flink) or large-scale time-series forecasting.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, and raising operational standards in high-load systems.
- Proven ability to thrive in high-ambiguity problem spaces, exercising sound judgment on trade-offs with imperfect information.
Responsibilities
For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
