JobsStaff Software Engineer, Uber Eats Search Experience
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Staff Software Engineer, Uber Eats Search Experience

Uber

Location

Sunnyvale, California

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/6/2026

Compensation

$232,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval-69% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

The role focuses on enhancing the search experience within Uber Eats, transforming it into an adaptive and intuitive platform that understands user intent. The Search Experience team is responsible for the presentation layer of search, ensuring high performance and reliability across global and in-store search. This position involves close collaboration with various teams to create trustworthy and high-converting user experiences. The goal is to modernize the foundations of search while building a seamless interface for Natural Language Search.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating consumer-facing products at scale with a focus on latency and availability.
  • Ability to use A/B tests and data to drive decisions and define success metrics.
  • Proven capability to manage work across client and server boundaries, including API design.
  • Experience in building high-performance, reliable user-facing web experiences.
  • Strong leadership skills to drive cross-functional projects without relying on authority.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to clarify plans and decisions.
  • High engineering judgment with a focus on quality and pragmatism.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional initiatives that span UX, engineering, and measurement.
  • Own end-to-end slices across the presentation path, including client-server contracts.
  • Set technical direction for performance, reliability, and experimentation readiness.
  • Improve foundational aspects to reduce recurring failure modes.
  • Collaborate with PM, Design, UXR, Data Science, and Ranking/Relevance teams.
  • Mentor team members through design reviews, code reviews, and reusable patterns.

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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Uber Technologies Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

65

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

339

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.3%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-69%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-77%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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