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Staff Software Engineer, Production Engineering

San Francisco, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeStaff$232,000–$258,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Uber is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Production Engineering team. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining services to enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Uber's massive distributed systems. The engineer will apply SRE concepts, lead initiatives, and guide other engineers on best practices. The position requires 8+ years of experience in languages like Go, Java, or Python, and a proven ability to deliver solutions end-to-end. Preferred qualifications include experience in platform/infrastructure engineering and mentoring teams.

About the Role
Engineering at Uber means building for real-world impact under real-world constraints. The problems are complex, the systems are massive, and the pace is fast. You'll need to make smart decisions with imperfect information - and own them. If you think in systems, stay calm under pressure, and care about building things that actually work - this is where you'll grow.
As a Production Engineer, you will blend software and systems engineering to ensure Uber's services run reliably at a massive scale. This isn't just about maintaining uptime; it's about architecting solutions for high-traffic distributed systems where performance and safety cannot be separated. You will navigate technical debt and shifting priorities while keeping the experience of millions of global users in mind. If you are energized by the challenge of unblocking complex reliability issues and want to build tools that empower an entire engineering organization, you belong on this team.
- What the Candidate Will Do -

  • Design, build, and maintain services to increase the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Uber's thousands of stateless and stateful production services spread across multiple datacenter zones and regions.
  • Lead initiatives end-to-end within the team, the Production Engineering org, and across engineering at large to increase reliability through automation, setting standards, developer tooling, and reusable frameworks.
  • Work with other engineers to deeply understand their services and guide them towards practical and reliable architecture and implementation.
  • Apply SRE concepts such as observability, integration/load/chaos testing, oncall, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to design and apply tooling to improve mean time between failures (MTBF), time to detection (TTD), and time to mitigation (TTM) of incidents.
  • Basic Qualifications -
  • 8+ years of experience in Go, Java, Python, or similar language
  • Experience in delivering solutions end-to-end from defining problems to generating architecture plans, implementation, testing, and delivery.
  • Ability to influence and lead other engineers through verbal and written communication to champion engineering best practices.
  • Preferred Qualifications -

- Experience mentoring and leading teams on projects while remaining hands-on and technical.
- Experience in various parts of SRE / reliability engineering / incident management at a large-scale company.
Experience in platform/infrastructure engineering in related disciplines such as compute platform, software networking, online storage, developer platform, and observability.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

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