Uber is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Matching Platform team. This team sits at the core of Uber's real-time marketplace, ensuring that riders and drivers are matched efficiently, fairly, and at scale.
Matching is one of Uber's most complex and impactful engineering problems, requiring expertise in high-scale distributed systems, real-time decision-making, and machine learning infrastructure. As a Senior Engineer, you'll play a key role in evolving our matching architecture, improving system efficiency, and enabling Uber's next-generation ML-powered matching capabilities. This is an opportunity to work on one of Uber's most business-critical domains with massive global impact.
Some of the problems you'll be working on include:
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- Building a highly scalable matching platform - handling millions of ride requests per second with ultra-low latency.
- Designing extensible architectures - creating a modular and flexible platform that allows new product innovations without complex rewrites.
- Evolving the ML platform for matching - enabling real-time inference, model deployment, and experimentation at scale.
---- What You Will Do ----
- Design, develop, and deploy systems/platform/algorithms to solve complex business problems and improve product performance
- Collaborate with applied/data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to understand requirements, define project goals, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Deliver and review technical design, code and documentation
- Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation: availability, performance, scaling, monitoring and capacity.
- Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technology stacks
- Mentor and support your interns/fellow team members
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive best practices in data management, data quality, and service deployment
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and advancements in software engineering
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 4+ years of experience in professional software development experience, developing and deploying systems in production environments
- Experience in developer tooling or developer productivity spaces
- Knowledge of different compilation steps (and ability to fix) in languages such as Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Experience using metrics to measure and improve developer experience.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 6+ years of experience in in professional software development experience, developing and deploying systems in production environments
- Experience building and iterating on code review (Phabricator, GitHub), automation test infrastructure (unit, integration, E2E), and build systems (Bazel / buck)
- Strong knowledge of backend development, distributed systems
- Strong motivation to grow and continuously develop new skills
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are necessary to tackle complex challenges
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.