Uber Sr Staff Engineer TLM 

United States, West Virginia 

789716516

We play a critical role in defining the authoritative signal for workload tenant health and performance, ensuring workloads operate within their declared SLAs. This serves as the key contract between product and platform: while the platform has the freedom to implement infrastructural changes, it must always honor the SLA requirements. Our work results in a unified repair engine that spans all layers of the stack, including physical networking.

Manager responsibilities 70%

• Establish and project manage projects and roadmaps that meet the overall Core Infra and Foundations vision
• Grow, coach, and develop a team of skilled software engineers. Help them meet their career goals, and drive their performance reviews
• Define the engineering culture and uphold the processes that will shape the future of the team

Tech Lead responsibilities 30%

• Contribute / drive / review technical design docs
• Ensure operational excellence of the team including the operations of a variety of critical production infrastructure services and systems and fielding stakeholder pain points

What You’ll Do

• Lead and oversee complex modernization projects, migrating distributed systems to cloud services while aligning with Uber’s architectural and performance standards.
• Oversee, mentor, and manage a team of high-performing engineers. Foster a culture of ownership, growth, and innovation.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services that power user-facing products and support downstream services, contributing to a seamless user experience.
• Drive the creation of infrastructure tools and platforms that improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency across Uber’s ecosystem.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering best practices in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and backend development.
• Ensure smooth, reliable deployment processes, optimizing for high performance and minimal downtime.
• Collaborate closely with Leadership, Product, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end, scalable solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their scenarios to develop customer-focused solutions.
• Leverage Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration, enabling scalable deployment pipelines and efficient infrastructure management (Kubernetes experience is a plus).

Basic Qualifications

• MS/BS/BE degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience in technical architecture, system design and/or design of cloud services and architecture, with experience in migration strategies and best practices.
• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a technical leader and manager.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and expertise in cloud-native tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in product engineering and scalability engineering.
• Expertise in cloud services and architecture, with experience in migration strategies and best practices.
• Knowledge of containerization, orchestration tools, and infrastructure management (Kubernetes experience is a plus).
• Proven ability to architect solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure, with a focus on performance and high availability.
• Proficiency in working with microservices architecture and backend systems within high-growth, technology-driven organizations.
• Familiarity with observability tools and techniques for monitoring and optimizing distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and effectively align multiple stakeholders toward common goals.
• Proven technical expertise with a deep understanding of engineering best practices, product architecture, and delivery of consumer-facing products
• Strong people leadership skills including growing and mentoring your team members
• Strong product sense and experience with end-to-end ownership of product development
• Demonstrated ability to make data-driven decisions using strong analytical skills, with a track record of leveraging insights to drive product improvements
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and communication skills for effective alignment with stakeholders across multiple teams
• High degree of ownership and bias towards action, with a focus on impact and results

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.