Uber
Sr Software Engineer
$202K–$224K
New York City, New York +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience, or the stated degree alternative; includes 3 years of total technical software engineering experience. The posting also describes 1 year of specialized software engineering experience, which may be gained through education, full-time work, training, coursework, research, or a combination, and need not be additional to the stated years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or the stated work-experience alternative.
About the job
Builds and operates Uber Eats’s Hydration Platform, a high-throughput distributed system serving store, item, and user data for core product experiences.
What you'll do
- Build foundation platform services used by Uber Eats engineering teams.
- Develop systems that serve data for feed, search, storefront, and checkout.
- Collaborate with Uber infrastructure and Uber Eats product engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience.
- 3 years of total technical software engineering experience, including production systems, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design; experience writing maintainable, well-tested production code.
Nice to have
- Experience building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency backend systems.
- Familiarity with micro service architecture and distributed system technologies such as Kafka, Redis, MySQL, and Thrift.
Pay
USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Kafka, Redis, MySQL
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