Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

The Ads Demand Platform team owns the end-to-end advertiser-side systems that power ad creation, management, and lifecycle across all ad formats and advertiser types. We build scalable APIs, workflows, and core systems that unblock and accelerate product teams spanning SMB, Enterprise, CPG, display, and non-endemic ads. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll shape foundational architecture, set technical direction across multiple teams, and have outsized impact by enabling the next generation of ads products at Uber scale.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design and evolution of core backend systems that power the advertiser experience across all ads products and formats
• Define and drive platform architecture, APIs, and shared services used by multiple ads feature teams
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and feature teams to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and setting engineering best practices across the org
• Own system reliability and operational excellence, including performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems in a production environment
• Strong proficiency in designing APIs, data models, and workflows with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Proven track record of technical leadership, including driving architecture decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and influencing across multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building ads platforms or demand-side systems, such as ad creation, targeting, bidding, budgeting, pacing, or measurement
• Strong background in designing multi-tenant, high-scale platform systems that serve diverse product teams and advertiser types

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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