Sr Staff Software Engineer

The Risk team plays a crucial role in Uber’s mission to keep malicious actors away from our system while ensuring powerful, intuitive, and frictionless experiences for our millions of daily users, including riders, eaters, drivers, couriers, and restaurants. Our continued obsession with innovation is essential to enabling Uber’s phenomenal global growth as we expand into new lines of business. This is a full-stack, cross-functional team tackling significant and challenging problems across backend, frontend, data, and machine learning engineering spaces, working closely with embedded collaborators from Product Management and Data Science.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will have direct responsibility for vital systems and processes. You will take ownership of key features and initiatives to craft and build high-quality, scalable systems that directly impact the lives of users and operations teams across the globe.

What You Will Do:

• Direct efforts to understand requirements and translate strategically important business or technical problems into executable and extensible designs.
• Build reliable, high-quality solutions that scale with Uber’s engineering processes.
• Deliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation.
• Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation, focusing on availability, performance, scaling, monitoring, and capacity.
• Manage upstream and downstream dependencies while collaborating effectively with other engineering teams.
• Mentor, coach, and support fellow teammates to help with their learning and career growth.
• Define standards in coding, testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, and lead the team to complete them.

What You Will Need:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong coding abilities with clean, elegant, and reliable code in languages such as JavaScript, Java, or Go.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to write effective technical specs, translate technical concepts, provide constructive feedback, and collaborate with openness and empathy.
• Demonstrated initiative and technical leadership in building scalable solutions.
• An ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, employees are expected to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office, though certain roles may require 100% in-office time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand specific expectations for this role. Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law.

• Job Category: Engineering & IT