Sr Staff Engineer, Backend - Core Services

**About The Role** As a Senior Staff Software Engineer , you are the Global Technical Anchor for systems powering every Uber trip and transaction. You define the multi\-year vision for the backend ecosystem, acting as a peer to Directors and VPs to ground Uber's most ambitious business goals in technical reality. **What You'll Do** * Technical Strategy: Define the "North Star" multi\-year roadmap and lead high\-stakes "buy vs. build" evaluations on the Architecture Review Board. * Execution \& Excellence: Directly tackle high\-risk challenges, driving a company\-wide shift toward "Zero\-Trust" and "Always\-On" architectures. * Mentorship \& Influence: Act as a "leader of leaders" by mentoring Staff Engineers and serving as a strategic advisor to VP/CTO level leadership. **Basic Qualifications** * Experience: 12\+ years of experience delivering massive\-scale distributed systems. * Technical Depth: Expert\-level understanding of distributed theory (CAP theorem, Paxos/Raft) and technical transformations. * Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience. **Preferred Qualifications** * Open Source: Significant contributions to major open\-source infrastructure or distributed systems projects. * Domain Expertise: Deep vertical expertise in FinTech or Security at a global "Big Tech" scale. * Architectural Migration: Experience migrating monolithic architectures to modular or cell\-based paradigms.