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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Uber
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Distributed Systems, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/3AB18F6C9AA24A21B3EABB5BBA7E88C8/job/

## About the Role

* 7+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems in a production environment
 * Strong proficiency in designing APIs, data models, and workflows with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
 * Proven track record of technical leadership, including driving architecture decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and influencing across multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience building ads platforms or demand-side systems, such as ad creation, targeting, bidding, budgeting, pacing, or measurement
 * Strong background in designing multi-tenant, high-scale platform systems that serve diverse product teams and advertiser types

## Description

The Ads Demand Platform team owns the end-to-end advertiser-side systems that power ad creation, management, and lifecycle across all ad formats and advertiser types. We build scalable APIs, workflows, and core systems that unblock and accelerate product teams spanning SMB, Enterprise, CPG, display, and non-endemic ads. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll shape foundational architecture, set technical direction across multiple teams, and have outsized impact by enabling the next generation of ads products at Uber scale.

What You Will Do

 * Lead the design and evolution of core backend systems that power the advertiser experience across all ads products and formats
 * Define and drive platform architecture, APIs, and shared services used by multiple ads feature teams
 * Partner closely with product, frontend, and feature teams to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions
 * Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and setting engineering best practices across the org
 * Own system reliability and operational excellence, including performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability


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