Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

The Unified Configuration System team enables Uber’s engineers and operators to manage/configure their fleet-wide services safely and efficiently on a large scale. We put extra emphasis on safe and gradual configuration rollout, ensuring proper monitoring and automatic rollback in case issues are detected.

The team provides a unified and scalable configuration experience across all of Uber’s workloads, data centers, and cloud vendors. We closely collaborate with many product and platform teams, also supporting custom-tailored configuration solutions that serve specific business needs.

What the Candidate Will Do

Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the payment experience for all Uber users.

Develop an excellent understanding of Uber’s business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.

See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for significant improvements across the entire Uber organization as a whole. Drive alignment on how to solve these and lead the delivery of high-leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.

Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and thorough and precise monitoring.

Staff-level engineers at Uber are exceptional mentors. They are trusted advisors for both team members and leaders alike.

Basic Qualifications

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• 8+ years of experience in successfully designing and building large backend engineering projects, including launching more than one generation of a microservice application serving millions of users
  
• Curiosity, grit, a critical mind, and a strong sense of responsibility
  
• Demonstration of taking ownership, leading cross-team initiatives
  
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and of OOP patterns. Java and Go are primary languages
  
• Experience with database architectures on a theoretical and practical level (e.G. RDBMS vs. NoSQL)
  
• Clearly communicate technically by writing system designs
  
• Drive team standards for (code) quality, performance, and efficiency
  

Preferred Qualifications

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• Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with an org-wide scope and high impact
  
• Experience designing and building APIs and components that interface with mobile and web applications
  
• Understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter / multi-region / cloud architectures (e.G. AWS)
  
• Familiarity with payments, PSPs, PCI, and/or PSD2 compliance frameworks
  

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world 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 [email protected].

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