Senior Staff Engineer – Marketplace
| Company | Uber |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $257000 – $285500 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 4-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 7-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 4-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
- Demonstrated examples of project leadership roles, delivering production-level features from inception, and promoting a high-quality culture amongst the team
- Deep system design skills. You know how to build highly-scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique exponential growth requirements
- Demonstrated experience easily speaking to the operational aspects of monitoring, alerting, and structuring code for production-level debugging and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Drive the vision: You’ll turn ambitious team goals into reality, helping set direction and leading initiatives that move the needle for our customers and business.
- Deliver measurable impact: You’ll collaborate closely with product managers and data scientists to define success metrics — and then lead engineering efforts to hit (and exceed) them.
- Elevate our technology: You’ll proactively identify opportunities to improve system scalability, reliability, and efficiency, ensuring we stay ahead as the business grows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in the pricing domain
- Knowledge of machine learning and/or optimization
- A background in product experimentation including the statistical knowledge, mechanics of experimentation and analysis so that you are able to interpret, debug and challenge experimental results when necessary.