Senior Staff Software Engineer - Membership
Uber Sunnyvale, CA Full-time 4/7/2026 $267,000 - $297,000 a year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Approval 99.3%•Total filings 920•New hires 237•
💎 Strong Sponsor
•FY 2025Job Description
Uber is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for its Uber One membership program, which is crucial for driving growth and user engagement. The role involves setting technical direction, designing large-scale systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance membership experiences for millions of users worldwide.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments
- Strong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications
- Demonstrated ability leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across various engineering pillars encompassing membership growth, retention, benefits delivery, experimentation, and platform infrastructure
- Design and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power membership lifecycle management, benefits eligibility and fulfillment, savings computation, and real-time personalization
- Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies
- Drive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation
- Architect for scale and reliability, designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks
- Mentor and elevate engineers across the organization, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence
- Shape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership
- Deliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard
Benefits
- Employees at Uber are often offered comprehensive health, life, disability, and mental wellness benefits, along with wellbeing stipends, travel medical coverage, and monthly Uber credits for Rides and Eats. Employees also get generous paid parental leave, flexible time off, and family-planning support so they can care for themselves and their families at every stage.
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