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# Staff Software Engineer, Core Services ProdEng

- **Company:** Uber
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $232,000.0 - $258,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Data Centers, Software Design Documents, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Load Testing, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Networking Systems, Integration Tests, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f45d96bf1aba18ac

## About the Role

* 8+ years of software engineering experience using Go, Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
 * Experience delivering engineering solutions end-to-end, including problem definition, architecture planning, implementation, testing, and delivery.
 * Ability to write clear technical proposals and Requests for Comments (RFCs), and drive engineering alignment across teams through written design documents and verbal discussions., * Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), reliability engineering, or incident management at a large-scale technology company.
 * Experience in platform or infrastructure engineering, including disciplines such as compute platforms, software networking, online storage, developer platforms, or observability. Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects or teams while remaining hands-on with software engineering and technical implementation.
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## Description

* Design, build, and maintain software that improves the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of thousands of stateless and stateful production services distributed across multiple data center zones and regions.
 * Lead engineering initiatives end-to-end within the team, across the Production Engineering organization, and throughout Uber Engineering to improve reliability through automation, engineering standards, developer tooling, and reusable frameworks.
 * Work closely with engineers to understand their services and guide them toward practical, reliable architectures and implementations.
 * Apply SRE principles such as observability, integration testing, load testing, chaos testing, on-call practices, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to improve mean time between failures (MTBF), time to detection (TTD), and time to mitigation (TTM).
 * Participate in on-call rotations, respond to and lead the mitigation of production incidents, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurring issues.