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Staff Software Engineer, Production Engineering

United States, San Francisco Employment contract 232000.00 - 258000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 16, 2026
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Delivery Production Engineering is a software engineering team, not a traditional operations or sysadmin team. We solve reliability problems by writing code: orchestration systems, load testing frameworks, automation tooling, and shared libraries. As a Production Engineer, you will blend multiple domains of software engineering to ensure Uber's services run reliably at massive scale improving compute efficiency and accelerating developer productivity for a platform that serves millions of users around the world.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, build, and maintain software to increase the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of thousands of stateless and stateful production services spread across multiple datacenter zones and regions
  • Lead initiatives end-to-end within the team, the Production Engineering org, and across engineering at large to increase reliability through automation, setting standards, developer tooling, and reusable frameworks
  • Work with other engineers to deeply understand their services and guide them towards practical and reliable architecture and implementation
  • Apply SRE concepts such as observability, integration/load/chaos testing, on-call, incident management, failovers, and disaster recovery to improve mean time between failures (MTBF), time to detection (TTD), and time to mitigation (TTM) of incidents
  • Participate in on-call rotations, responding to and leading mitigation of production incidents, and driving post-incident improvements

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Go, Java, Python, or similar language
  • Experience in delivering solutions end-to-end from defining problems to generating architecture plans, implementation, testing, and delivery
  • Writes clear technical proposals and RFCs
  • able to drive engineering alignment across teams through written design docs and verbal discussion

Nice to have

  • Experience in various parts of SRE / reliability engineering / incident management at a large-scale company
  • Experience in platform/infrastructure engineering in related disciplines such as compute platform, software networking, online storage, developer platform, and observability
  • Experience mentoring and leading teams on projects while remaining hands-on and technical

What we offer

  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • Eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan
  • Various benefits
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