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# Sr Software Engineer

- **Company:** Uber
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $202,000.0 - $224,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Data Structures, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Performance Tuning, Redis, Software Engineering, Concurrency, Backend, Information Technology, Low Latency, Production Code, Apache Kafka, Service Stack, Microservices
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2d5dfd84e8e38dd5

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 5-year full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-year total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
 * Professional software engineering experience building and delivering production systems.
 * Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go).
 * Developing backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
 * Understanding of core computer science concepts, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.
 * Experience writing maintainable, well-tested production code.
 * Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and cross-functional partners.

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Note the 1-year total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The year of specialized experience is not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:

Preferred:

 * Experience building scalable, high-throughput, and low-latency backend systems.
 * Familiarity with micro service architecture and distributed system technologies such as Kafka, Redis, MySQL and Thrift.
 * Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, observability, and production debugging.
 * Experience in driving cross-team projects.

## Description

We are seeking passionate software engineers to join our Hydration Platform team and help build the foundation platform used by many engineering teams across Uber Eats.

You will collaborate closely with Uber infrastructure teams and Uber Eats product engineering teams. You will have opportunities to work across product lines spanning across feed, search, storefront and checkout.

About the Team:

The Hydration Platform team operates at the heart of Uber Eats's technology stack. We build high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that serve store, item and user data to applications used by merchants, consumers and couriers in real time.

Our team works closely with Uber infrastructure teams across storage, networking and developer platforms. We develop innovative engineering solutions for complex product challenges. Operating at a scale of tens of millions of requests per second, our platform directly powers core user experiences like home feed, search, storefront and checkout.