Staff Engineer - Uber Marketplace

Staff Engineer Opportunity

We're seeking an exceptional Staff Engineer to lead the technical infrastructure powering Uber's Marketplace systems that serve millions of drivers and riders globally. This role demands a proven track record of extraordinary technical leadership and innovative solutions at world-class technology companies. You'll architect and scale real-time infrastructure handling high QPS, directly impacting marketplace efficiency and driver earnings. This is a unique opportunity to solve complex technical challenges at the intersection of real-time optimization, distributed systems, and marketplace dynamics while building the next generation of marketplace platform infrastructure.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the design and execution of multi-quarter initiatives to enhance marketplace efficiency, reliability, and developer velocity.
• Architect real-time optimization systems that balance supply/demand across global markets.
• Drive technical strategy for marketplace platform infrastructure, including ML model serving, experimentation frameworks, and real-time decision engines.
• Partner with Marketplace, Data Science, and Product teams to build a unified infrastructure supporting earner algorithms and marketplace optimization.
• Collaborate with ML Engineering teams to scale model inference and real-time feature serving for marketplace decisions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering teams to ensure 99.99% availability for critical marketplace systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership capability across the marketplace organization.
• Establish engineering standards, team processes, architectural patterns, and operational excellence practices.
• Drive innovation in distributed systems design, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput marketplace infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications:

• Computer Science degree or equivalent technical education.
• 8+ years of industry experience with demonstrated exceptional technical leadership.
• Proven track record of extraordinary impact: Led real-time infrastructure serving 100M+ users, or 1M+ QPS, achieved 10x+ performance improvements, and drove breakthrough technical innovations.
• Background at leading technology companies known for world-class infrastructure (Meta, Amazon, Databricks, TikTok, Google, Netflix, Airbnb, or similar scale).

Deep Technical Expertise:

• Expert-level experience with large-scale distributed systems, handling millions of QPS.
• Proficiency in real-time streaming and batch processing (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark) and low-latency data systems.
• Advanced knowledge of database technologies (e.g., MySQL, Hive, Redis) and caching strategies.
• Experience with microservices architecture, API design, service mesh, and observability at scale.
• Exceptional coding skills in Go and Java, with experience in high-performance system design.

Leadership & Execution:

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives from conception to delivery.
• Experience managing technical relationships across multiple engineering teams and organizations.
• Proven track record of driving engineering culture and mentoring senior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in optimization, platformization (e.g., experimentation platforms), or ML infrastructure.
• Experience managing people and open to pursuing the management track in the future.
• Open-source contributions or technical thought leadership in distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., OCI) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Track record of operational excellence: incident management, SLA optimization, and system reliability.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 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.

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.