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Staff Software Engineer, Build Systems

United States, New York, New York Employment contract 232000.00 - 258000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 09, 2026
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Uber's Build team is looking for a top notch Staff Software Engineer to help deliver a frictionless build experience that is fast, reliable, and integrated seamlessly into the developer workflow. You will help delight our engineering teams, and enable the whole engineering organization to iterate rapidly. We create and contribute to open source software and collaborate with other industry leading tech companies with the belief that every developer should be productive.

Job Responsibility

  • Partner with fellow engineers to innovate, architect, develop and scale Uber's distributed build platform
  • Provide initiative and technical leadership to build reliable, high-quality solutions that scale with Uber's engineering processes
  • Deliver and review technical design, code and documentation
  • Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation: availability, performance, scaling, monitoring and capacity
  • Manage upstream and downstream dependencies, collaborate with other engineering teams, gather requirements and enable successful adoption of build infrastructure
  • Support your fellow teammates.

Requirements

  • BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering
  • Expert level in one of the following programming languages: Go, Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, or Typescript
  • Build System Expertise: Deep knowledge of at least one build system such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, Nix or similar.

Nice to have

  • Experience contributing to and improving open-source projects like Bazel, Bazel rules, and others
  • Experience working on large scale monorepos
  • Experience in developing/operating high performance and large scale distributed systems in production
  • Sound understanding of fundamentals and principles of distributed systems
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across offices.

What we offer

  • Bonus program
  • equity award & other types of compensation
  • 401(k) plan
  • various benefits.
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