About The Team

The Core Services Team builds and maintains the mission‑critical, high‑throughput, and fault‑tolerant foundational services that power the entire Uber platform. This includes global‑scale services for Safety, Identity, Payments, and other core business logic.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader who operates with a broad scope, influencing the technical direction not just within your team but across multiple dependent platform and product teams. You will drive the design and implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems, setting a high bar for engineering excellence and mentoring senior engineers across the organization.

• Lead the design and architecture of large‑scale, resilient backend services and distributed systems for core platform components (e.g., ensuring high availability, sub‑millisecond latency, and strict data consistency).
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