Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Batch data platform team, you will play a critical role in driving Uber’s batch data infrastructure to the cloud. You’ll be responsible for building scalable, reliable systems that automate dataset replication, orchestrate workload migrations, and ensure data integrity and performance across hybrid environments. You will collaborate with infra, platform, and product teams to migrate hundreds of PBs of data and thousands of pipelines, minimizing customer impact and ensuring strong observability and resilience during the transition. This role is central to delivering on Uber’s long-term cost, performance, and scalability goals.

What you'll do

1. Lead initiatives through all stages of the project lifecycle, from ideation and design to project planning and execution, by understanding business requirements and providing effective solutions.
2. Develop and document high-quality code to address strategically important problems.
3. Productionise systems across Uber’s fleet while carefully monitoring and evolving the solutions based on production data.
4. Foster collaboration across multiple teams to achieve successful delivery of projects.
5. Mentor engineers to cultivate their leadership capabilities.
6. Represent the team in both internal and external forums.

What you'll Need

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
2. Experience programming in multiple languages such as Go, Java, Python, C/C++
3. 10+ years of experience in low-level systems, distributed systems, or similar technologies.
4. Background in Big Data technologies and large-scale backend infrastructure.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience in GenAI or LLM technologies.
2. Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.

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 fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.