Sr Staff Engineer, Backend - Core Services

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

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

Significant contributions to major open-source infrastructure or distributed systems projects. Domain Expertise: Deep vertical expertise in Fin. Tech or Security at a global "Big Tech" scale. Architectural Migration: Experience migrating monolithic architectures to modular or cell-based paradigms. ~~ ~~