Staff Software Engineer (Communications Platform)

About the Role
Sr Staff Engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple teams. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design, implement and deliver scalable and resilient systems. They are not only role models, but also approachable thought-leaders, collaborators and mentors to engineers. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of talented engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely challenging projects.
The Communications Platform at Uber is responsible for building technology that enables a seamless communication channel technology that will facilitate both realtime & offline communications among Uber & its user community. This team focuses on providing a high performing, secure, reliable, and resilient ecosystem for seamless communications to all our users (Riders, Drivers, Eaters, Couriers, Restaurants, etc) through automated and innovative solutions.
As a Backend Software Engineer, you will build highly-performant, reliable products used by hundreds of millions of customers every day. You will collaborate with stakeholders within and across teams to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
We are looking for someone with a passion for architecting and building highly scalable & highly-available, mission-critical systems that support millions of users during their communications experience with uber on a daily basis.
This is a unique opportunity to build a tech/arch vision, create an impact delivering next generation communication experience, across choice of channels, for a variety of marketplace products/consumers across Uber’s global offerings disrupting the gig economy.
This is a very high impact role where you will interface with all major marketplace and infrastructure / platform teams at Uber. Does this sound exciting to you? Are you a tested team player, strategic thinker and executor? We want to hear from you.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
Architect the next generation communications platform for Uber across all its current and growing portfolio of global business offereings including third party marketplace offerings.
Actively seek out the toughest technology and engineering problems and solve them with little to no guidance.
Own large opportunities and initiatives and drive clarity, convergence and closure across teams.
Take the larger vision or challenge and distill it down with the leadership team into strategies and plans including trade-offs required to realize the vision.
Be a role model on acting with good judgement and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects.
Provide technical leadership and vision in designing, implementing, testing and rolling out the next generations of our payments systems.
Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a differences in opinion in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.)
8+ years experience designing, implementing large scale, high throughput distributed systems
Advanced, inside-out knowledge of multiple programming languages, data store systems and message queue and data technoligies. We use programming languages like Go, Java, data stores like Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis and MQs like Kafka- Any programming language is fine.
Deep, industry leading expertise in one or more technology domains and are the "-to" person for one or more areas of their business.
A track record of building large-scale, highly-available systems that solve complex, organizational level business problems.
Expert and hands-on understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter/cloud architectures.
Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing or monitoring, deployment and post production practices.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
Deep, industry leading expertise in one or more technology spaces in the communication domain.
Experience working in the Communications industry, working with CPaaS (Communications platform as a service) providers like twilio, infobip, sinch, messagebird etc.
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Ready to Ride?
This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits.
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