Staff Software Engineer (Communications Platform)

About this role

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 ...