Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Core Services

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

• 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).
• Own complex backend technical initiatives that impact major product areas or multiple infrastructure and cross‑platform engineering teams.
• Drive technical decision‑making and establish architectural standards and patterns for the wider Core Services organization, focusing on scalability, security, and multi‑region fault tolerance.
• Implement critical, high‑performance backend features and microservices using modern languages (e.g., Go, Java) a...