Staff Software Engineer - Marketplace Tech lead

About The Role

We are hiring a Staff Engineer who will act as a strong technical lead with deep infrastructure expertise. This individual should have experience building and scaling robust infrastructure systems at top-tier companies and must have a proven track record of leading multiple teams or projects. You will work on 1M QPS systems, deeply collaborate with cross-functional partners, shape our long-term infrastructure strategy, and drive high-impact initiatives that will directly impact millions of earners.

What You Will Do

• Identify infrastructure gaps and scalability challenges, lead design and execution of complex, multi-quarter infrastructure projects with direct business impact.
• Deeply collaborate with partner teams in the marketplace org to build joint infrastructure that benefits the whole Marketplace.
• Work with cross-functional partners such as Science, Product, and Ops teams to align on long-term infrastructure to achieve business goals.
• Drive engineering excellence efforts and foster a strong engineering culture.
• Mentor and lead senior engineers, and grow technical leadership within the marketplace org.
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Computer Science or related technical degree
• 8 years of industry experience.
• Strong background in top-tier tech companies known for world-class infrastructure and can bring the best industry practices to the team.
• Strong expertise in large-scale, real-time distributed systems, databases, reliability engineering, and platform design.
• Strong project management skills, experience working with cross-functional partners, and leading multiple large projects from inception to delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong coding ability in Go and Java.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master degree
• Willingness to take on leadership roles and grow into broader technical leadership.
• Strong product sense and has worked on optimization and algorithmic problem space before
  
  

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 https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.