L5 Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Description : What Youll Do

• Design, implement, and evolve large-scale distributed systems, backend services, and infrastructure powering Ubers products.
• Lead the architecture and technical strategy for key business-critical projects across multiple teams.
• Apply software design principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS) and system design best practices to build robust and extensible solutions.
• Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and Operations to define goals, success metrics, and delivery timelines.
• Identify architectural gaps and work to reduce technical debt through refactoring and evolving legacy systems.
• Debug and analyze issues across complex systems (e.g., memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, threading issues, race conditions).
• Define and enforce engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, observability, and operational excellence.
• Drive efficiency, performance, and latency improvements in backend systems at scale.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Participate in and drive hiring, including interviews, design challenges, and technical bar-raising efforts.
• Represent Uber in internal and external technical forums, conferences, and open-source initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Tech Stack & Tools :

Languages & Frameworks :

1. gRPC, RESTful APIs, GraphQL

2. Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Service Mesh (Istio / Envoy)

3. Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar

4. Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch

5. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB

1. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

2. Jaeger, Zipkin, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

3. PagerDuty, Splunk, Datadog

Development Tools :

What We Value :

Workplace Expectations :

Unless explicitly designated as fully remote, engineers are expected to spend at least 50% of their time in-office to foster collaboration and align with Ubers cultural values. For specific roles like those in green-light hubs, 100% in-office presence may be required.

Join Us :

At Uber, were reimagining the way the world moves. If youre passionate about tackling some of the hardest engineering problems at global scale, while mentoring others and driving a high-performing culture, wed love to talk. Lets move the world forward - together.

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