Staff Software Engineer - Engineer

Job-ID: 303171Category: EngineerLocation: San Francisco, CA, United StatesSchedule: Full time, Level 5BPosted: 2026-10-07About the RoleUber One is Uber's flagship membership program, serving more than 50 million members globally across Mobility, Delivery, Grocery, and other Uber experiences. Membership combines savings, benefits, priority experiences, and exclusive offerings while driving engagement, cross-platform adoption, and long-term retention.The Membership Product Engineering organization includes 70+ engineers across Growth, Benefits, Retention, Engagement, Experimentation, and Membership Platform. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for the backend systems behind member-facing experiences, owning architecture for a major area of the Membership platform and working closely with Product and Data Science.What You Will DoOwn architecture and technical direction for a major Membership area (for example benefits, savings and offers, membership lifecycle, or experimentation and presentation platforms).Design and build high-QPS, low-latency, highly available services that power real-time member experiences, such as benefits, offers, savings, and engagement, across Mobility and Delivery.Lead multi-quarter, multi-team projects from ambiguous requirements through global rollout and measurement.Partner with Product, Data Science, Design, and client engineers (Web, iOS, Android) to turn growth, engagement, and retention goals into technical solutions.Build platforms, reusable APIs, and frameworks that let teams launch and experiment on member experiences faster, improving conversion, engagement, and retention.Raise the bar on reliability, observability, and operational excellence through design reviews and hands-on example.Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leaders on your teams.Basic Qualifications:7+ years of experience delivering, scaling, and owning highly successful and innovative software products with your fingerprints all over them - you're extremely proud of what you've accomplished.Proven record of engineering and coding skills. Ability to write high-performance production quality code. Experience in Go, Python, Java or other equivalent languages.Perseverance to get things done with a focus on shipping online production systems. Roadblocks don't get in your way - they get you excited for the challenge.A deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented code. Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.Drive to always learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.Preferred Qualifications:Experience building membership, subscription, loyalty, growth, or consumer engagement products.Experience building consumer-facing products in real-time marketplaces at global scale.Experience with experimentation (A/B testing, feature configuration), personalization, or configuration-driven product platforms.Track record of translating consumer needs into measurable customer and business impact.Experience with payments, pricing, or offers systems.Ability to work across org boundaries and align teams on shared technical goals.ResponsibilitiesFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year.You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.About the companyReady 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. Explore our benefits.Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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.