Senior Software Engineer, Fulfillment Foundations

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Work with a best-in-class distributed system at the heart of Uber.
2. Build vision - Take ownership of a vaguely defined problem, see the big picture, and identify strategically important design goals, inefficiencies, or opportunities for significant improvements. Drive alignment on how to tackle and deliver highly leverage-able solutions at the group and organization levels.
3. Demonstrate tech expertise to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverage-able solutions.
4. Execute large scale projects - Provide technical leadership in architecting and building mission-critical distributed systems.
5. Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Deal with difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward
6. Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving standard methodologies, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
7. Mentor other engineers in the org and help develop them into senior engineers.

Basic Qualifications

1. 5+ years relevant engineering experience.
2. Proven record of designing and implementing reliable, large scale distributed platforms/systems.
3. Experience with Java, Go or C++ (bonus points for more than one).
4. Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

1. MS / Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.
2. Great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution.
3. Experience with architecting high-scale systems in close partnership with other platform/product engineers.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
5. Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
6. Obsessed with System Efficiency and have a platform attitude.
7. You can collaborate well with product engineering teams to articulate requirements and system design.
8. Experience with very large data processing pipelines, and data integrations.
9. Proven ability to develop other strong engineers into senior engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with org-wide scope and high impact

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.