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Uber · 1 day ago

Senior Staff Engineer

Uber is a leading technology company that focuses on providing solutions for their users across various products. The role involves solving large-scale problems, promoting coding best practices, and building strategic relationships to deliver on organizational goals.

LogisticsMobile AppsRide SharingSoftwareTransportation
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Responsibilities

Solve strategically important multi-year large scale problems with compelling modular design choices, hands-on coding and reviews; improves, role models, and promotes coding best practices
Evangelizes and leads the adoption of standards and best practices within the organization including genAI
Foresees architectural problems and/or opportunities that the organization will face 1-2 years out. Works with engineering leadership to address them before they become an issue
Make intelligent bets on high-impact innovations and uses good judgment to fail fast when necessary
Design long-lasting engineering artifacts that reduces complexity, balances eng-wide migration cost, increases developer velocity, or improves efficiency and reliability
Creates an inclusive environment to promote open communication and leverages the ideas/opinions of others from diverse perspectives and encourages team members to recognize their value
Builds strategic relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g. engineers, product managers, designers, operations representatives) and external partners to deliver on organizational goals

Qualification

Large scale distributed systemsCustomer facing Platforms/SaaSIdentityAccess managementIntegrations connecting systemsArchitectural foresightCoding best practicesTeam collaboration

Required

BS or equivalent in Computer Science, or related field
10-years full-time Software Engineering work experience
Designing and building large scale distributed systems, including launching and migrating a large backend platform to 100's of millions of users
Customer facing Platforms/SaaS serving 100's of millions of customers

Preferred

Identity and access management experience
Experience working with 1B+ user systems or products
Integrations connecting systems between scaled tech driven companies
Lead projects spanning across large organizations

Benefits

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
You will also be eligible for various benefits.

Company

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

H1B Sponsorship

Uber has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (830)
2024 (796)
2023 (684)
2022 (954)
2021 (750)
2020 (638)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$35.56B
Key Investors
William AckmanPayPalToyota Motor
2025-09-08Post Ipo Debt· $2.25B
2025-05-13Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2025-01-01Post Ipo Equity· $2.3B

Leadership Team

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Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO
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Prashanth Mahendra -Rajah
Chief Financial Officer
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