Uber
Sr Staff Engineer - U4B
$267K–$297K
Sunnyvale, California +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend development and building large-scale production distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and implementation of globally scaled backend systems for Uber’s U4B platform, including critical payment and pricing flows.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead the design of resilient, highly available distributed systems and microservices.
- Build platform abstractions and developer tools, and lead transitions to redundant processing for critical flows.
- Drive architecture reviews, reduce technical debt, and improve observability and incident response in partnership with cross-functional leaders.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend development and large-scale distributed systems.
- Track record leading organization-wide engineering initiatives and large-scale projects from inception through global productionization.
- Experience setting organizational standards for testing, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, Java, or Python; experience with real-time marketplace platforms.
- Experience with Flink/Kafka, GCP, and Kubernetes at scale.
Pay
USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year (base salary; San Francisco, CA); USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year (base salary; Sunnyvale, CA)
Tools
Go, Java, Python, Flink, Kafka, GCP, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build developer tools and platform abstractions that enable ML teams to iterate rapidly on core algorithms.
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