About the Role
The Media Platform team builds Uber's unified, scalable infrastructure for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering media that powers global Safety and Trust products. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and evolution of high-performance distributed systems that process large-scale video and media workloads reliably and cost-efficiently. Your work will directly enable real-time safety use cases by ensuring media intelligence systems - including ML-powered insights - operate with low latency, high availability, and strong compliance guarantees.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
\-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ----
1. Architect and scale distributed backend systems that support media ingestion, processing, intelligence, and delivery across global regions.
2. Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-throughput media pipelines.
3. Design infrastructure that enables efficient integration and execution of ML inference workloads within media systems.
4. Drive technical strategy and long-term architectural decisions across the Media Platform.
5. Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering excellence, operational rigor, and system design.
\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----
1. 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale service architecture.
2. Strong backend engineering experience (Go, Java, C++, or similar) with expertise in system design, performance optimization, and reliability.
3. Experience building high-throughput, low-latency services handling large data volumes (streaming, storage, or media systems).
\-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ----
1. Experience building or operating media, video, or real-time streaming pipelines.
2. Familiarity with ML-powered systems (e.g., integrating model inference services, optimizing ML workloads, or supporting ML pipelines in production).
3. Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
4. Experience designing privacy-aware or compliance-driven systems at scale.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 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. More details can be found at the following link [https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits](https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits).
