Uber

Sr Staff Engineer - Engineer

Uber$267K — $297K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering)
  • 10+ years of software development experience in production environments
  • Expertise in backend development and distributed systems
  • Proven experience leading complex, multi-team initiatives
  • Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
  • Demonstrated mentoring capabilities for senior engineers

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction across engineering pillars for membership growth and retention
  • Design large-scale distributed systems for membership management and real-time personalization
  • Lead multi-team technical initiatives with cross-organizational dependencies
  • Drive data-driven product engineering through instrumentation and experimentation
  • Architect scalable and reliable systems for real-time operations
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence
  • Shape technical strategy and translate it into actionable engineering roadmaps

Benefits

  • Participation in Uber's bonus program
  • Potential equity award
  • Access to a 401(k) plan for all employees
  • Eligibility for various unspecified benefits
Full Job Description
Job Description

What you'll do
  • Set technical direction across various engineering pillars encompassing membership growth, retention, benefits, membership experimentation, and platform infrastructure - ensuring architectural coherence and high engineering standards across a 70+ engineer organization.
  • Design and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power membership lifecycle management, benefits eligibility and fulfillment, savings computation, and real-time personalization across Uber's Rides, Delivery, and Grocery surfaces.
  • Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies - coordinating with Eats, Rides, Grocery, Payments, Pricing, Fares, Fulfillment Engineering teams to deliver integrated membership experiences.
  • Drive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, holdout analysis) to optimize membership coverage, conversion, engagement, and savings delivery.
  • Architect for scale and reliability - designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks, benefits applications, and personalized offer computations with low latency and high availability.
  • Mentor and elevate engineers across the organization, including Senior and Staff-level ICs, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and operational rigor.
  • Shape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership - translating membership growth and engagement objectives into engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions.
  • Deliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard, championing best practices in service architecture, data management, and deployment.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments.
  • Strong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs.
    Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building and scaling membership, subscription, or loyalty platform systems.
  • Proven track record of setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (50+ engineers across multiple teams).
  • Experience with full-stack product engineering - building consumer-facing features that span backend services, APIs, and client integration points.
  • Deep experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing at scale, and data-driven product development.
  • Background in pricing, personalization, or recommendation systems.
  • Experience with multi-sided marketplace dynamics and understanding of how membership programs drive platform network effects.
  • Proficiency in languages such as Go, Java, or Python, with strong foundations in performance optimization and debugging across complex stacks.
  • Experience designing systems that span multiple business verticals (e.g., Rides, Delivery, Grocery) with shared platform layers.
  • Track record of driving both technical innovation and raising organizational engineering standards across a large, distributed team.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort navigating ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.
  • Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and LLM-powered systems, with a track record of driving AI adoption across engineering teams to accelerate development velocity and product innovation


Responsibilities

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.

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.

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

Uber Careers

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Learn more about Uber
Size
29,300 employees
Market Cap
$48.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$6.7 billion
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+35.3%
Revenue
$11.1 billion
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