Sr Software Engineer - ML platform

Role Overview As a Senior Software Engineer on the Michelangelo Feature Store team, you will drive the technical direction of our real-time feature serving infrastructure. You will be responsible for tackling complex distributed systems challenges to deliver high-throughput, ultra-low-latency feature retrieval at enterprise scale. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical execution, architectural system design, and engineering mentorship.

What You Will Do

• Design & Build: Own the architecture and implementation of highly scalable feature serving components, ensuring millisecond-latency feature retrieval for real-time ML applications.
• Scale Infrastructure: Develop robust streaming and online data serving systems that handle massive concurrent request volumes, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation under load.
• System Performance: Optimize platform efficiency by tuning underlying fast-access data stores and in-memory caches to guarantee strict low-latency SLAs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate feature engineering needs into generalized platform capabilities and elegant, developer-facing APIs.
• Technical Leadership: Lead technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and guide architectural decisions to minimize technical debt across the feature serving stack.
• Mentorship: Elevate the engineering bar by mentoring mid-level and junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Operational Excellence: Own the production health of the feature serving layer. Define SLIs/SLOs, build comprehensive observability (metrics, distributed tracing), and participate in on-call rotations to ensure 99.99%+ reliability.

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend systems in production.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, or Python.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, covering concurrency, consistency, data modeling, API design, and fault tolerance.
• Proven track record of leading the design and end-to-end delivery of complex, high-throughput, low-latency software services., * Deep understanding of fast-access NoSQL databases, in-memory caches, and key-value stores (e.g., Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB) optimized for read-heavy workloads.
• Experience with real-time stream processing and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Flink).
• Background in building or scaling Feature Stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton) or similar high-performance data serving layers. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience writing comprehensive technical design documents. *

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber’s bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

Ready to Ride?

This isn’t the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it’s where you help write one. If you’re driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we’d love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber’s culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role’s requirements.

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