Staff Software Engineer

About The Role

The Consumer Pricing and Incentives team, part of the Marketplace organization, drives consumer demand for Uber's Delivery business, including food delivery and groceries. Our systems power the experience for millions of consumers and thousands of merchants globally, with significant growth on the horizon. As a core part of Uber's marketplace, we are focused on building innovative solutions that create value at massive scale. We are looking for a technical thought leader who excels in problem solving, critical thinking, and designing highly scalable systems. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of Uber's Delivery marketplace and make a direct impact on the business.

What You Will Do

• Set the vision and strategy for the team, ensuring alignment with Uber's broader goals while keeping the team focused on delivering high-impact solutions.
• Drive technical excellence by leading the development of scalable systems, setting clear expectations, and fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration.
• Collaborate across functions, working closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to shape and execute the team's roadmap and solve complex, high-impact problems.
• Mentor and develop engineers, providing guidance on technical challenges and professional growth while promoting best practices in software engineering.
• Ensure alignment across teams, facilitating smooth collaboration with stakeholders to define the direction of product features and pricing strategies.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 2-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
• Note the 3-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.
• Demonstrated examples of project leadership roles, delivering production-level features from inception, and promoting a high-quality culture amongst the team
• Deep system design skills. You know how to build highly-scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique exponential growth requirements
• Demonstrated experience easily speaking to the operational aspects of monitoring, alerting, and structuring code for production-level debugging and optimization

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in the pricing domain
• Knowledge of machine learning and/or optimization
• A background in product experimentation including the statistical knowledge, mechanics of experimentation and analysis so that you are able to interpret, debug and challenge experimental results when necessary

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-