Overview
About the Role As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you are the Global Technical Anchor for systems powering every Uber trip and transaction. You define the multi-year vision for the backend ecosystem, acting as a peer to Directors and VPs to ground Uber's most ambitious business goals in technical reality. What You'll Do Technical Strategy: Define the \"North Star\" multi-year roadmap and lead hi
Full job description
About the Role As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you are the Global Technical Anchor for systems powering every Uber trip and transaction. You define the multi-year vision for the backend ecosystem, acting as a peer to Directors and VPs to ground Uber's most ambitious business goals in technical reality. What You'll Do Technical Strategy: Define the "North Star" multi-year roadmap and lead high-stakes "buy vs. build" evaluations on the Architecture Review Board. Execution & Excellence: Directly tackle high-risk challenges, driving a company-wide shift toward "Zero-Trust" and "Always-On" architectures. Mentorship & Influence: Act as a "leader of leaders" by mentoring Staff Engineers and serving as a strategic advisor to VP/CTO level leadership. Basic Qualifications Experience: 12+ years of experience delivering massive-scale distributed systems. Technical Depth: Expert-level understanding of distributed theory (CAP theorem, Paxos/Raft) and technical transformations. Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience. Preferred Qualifications Open Source: Significant contributions to major open-source infrastructure or distributed systems projects
How to apply: https://www.themuse.com/jobs/uber/sr-staff-engineer-backend-core-services-cc21e5
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