Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform
Role summary
Uber's Developer Platform team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the technical foundation for developers. This role involves designing, coding, and shipping features using Go and modern backend technologies to solve complex challenges at scale. The engineer will also mentor junior developers, improve engineering foundations through initiatives like modular components and reusable plugins, and champion high-quality code and rapid execution. The position requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, experience with distributed systems, backend systems, platform development, system architecture, and mentoring engineers.
About the Role
The Developer Platform's vision is to be the industry leader for how developers build high-quality software productively at scale. Our mission is to Enable Uber developers to build high-quality software consistently and without frustration.
At Uber the Developer Platform teams build the technical foundation for engineers to develop the future of mobility. Our engineering community depends on us to develop centralized solutions to support each part of the development life cycle from writing the first line of code to shipping software to production that touches millions of users. We have a unique opportunity to work across Uber's products to solve for scale and impact company wide technical roadmaps.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- What the Candidate Will Do -
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- You'll design, code, and ship features using Go and modern technologies. You'll solve complex challenges at the intersection of a cutting-edge backend stack
- Level-Up the Team: As a senior technical voice, you will mentor other engineers, elevate our engineering foundations through initiatives that build modular components and reusable plugins, and champion a culture of high-quality code and rapid execution.
- Basic Qualifications -
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
- Experience leading projects involving backend systems, infrastructure, or platform development
- Strong technical background in system architecture and backend engineering
- Experience mentoring, coaching junior engineers
- Preferred Qualifications -
- Experience building platform or infrastructure teams
- Experience building high-scale backend systems serving large user bases
- Experience improving system reliability, performance, and observability
- Experience defining technical strategy and long-term architectural direction
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year. For all US locations, 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.
Sample Uber interview questions
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Design a truck tracking system that supports filtering by truck number and includes an interface
system designmedium - 2
Design Uber Eats
system designmedium - 3
Given a sorted array of integers (which may include negatives), return the squares of the numbers
codingmedium - 4
Find the minimum characters to insert to make a string a palindrome
codingmedium - 5
Given an array of integers and a number N, find the length of the longest contiguous subarray such
codingmedium
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