Staff Software Engineer

Overview

On Site
USD 223,000.00 - 248,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

FOCUS
Management
Exceed
Reliability Engineering
Real-time
Shipping
Project Management
Systems Design
Debugging
Golang
Java
Node.js
Python
ADS
Budget
Law
Legal
Collaboration

Job Details

About the Team:

Uber is changing the way people think about transportation. Not that long ago, we were just an app to request premium black cars in a few metropolitan areas. Now we're a part of the logistical fabric of cities everywhere. Whether it's a ride, a sandwich, or a package, we use technology to give people what they want, when they want it.

We're looking for engineers to join our team to help grow the UberEats Ads business which enables eaters to discover new foods, and restaurants to grow their customer base. You'll work with teams behind apps used by millions globally every day.

What the Candidate Will Do:

As an engineer in the Ads Bidding and Pacing team, you will focus on developing & optimizing Auto Bidding and Budget Pacing systems:

- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance bidding and pacing systems.
- Ensure these systems meet or exceed campaign performance goals, advertiser expectations, and system reliability standards.

- Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other engineering teams to deliver:

- A bid-based budget pacing system that ensures daily/weekly budget delivery.
- Maximize Conversions, which leverages real-time bidding to meet key advertiser goals.

Basic Qualifications:

- Technical strength with 7+ years of experience developing and shipping code for production systems
- 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 .
- You have a strong command of a backend stack (eg. Golang, Java, Node.js, Python, etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

- 4 years of experience in ads, specifically in budget pacing and bidding.
- Industry experience working on distributed systems: developing reliable, high performance, highly scalable and low latency software
- Demonstrable knowledge of the principles of fault-tolerance, reliability and durability.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$223,000 per year - USD$248,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [](;br>
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