Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

About the Role

Our Core Infrastructure team in Aarhus is at the forefront of building and scaling mission-critical systems that power Uber globally, enabling 180M users and more than 1B rides per month. We focus on improving quality, security, modernization, and efficiency across Ubers backend infrastructure. Our work spans safe deployment, encryption, Kubernetes adoption, workload automation, autoscaling, and adoption of ARM.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the design and execution of impactful, cross-team backend projects, improve developer efficiency and resilience, and help define the technical direction for infrastructure components through cutting-edge technologies and scalable engineering practices.

What You Will Do

1. Design and implement backend infrastructure components to support Ubers growing workloads, including deployment engines, autoscalers, and hybrid cloud environments.

2. Lead cross-team projects focused on safe deployment and rollback automation across stateless, stateful, and batch workloads, improving resilience and developer efficiency.

3. Improve infrastructure security and compliance, including encryption-at-rest, ransomware mitigation, and cloud security best practices.

4. Contribute to and drive modernization efforts within the team and across related teams, including Kubernetes migration, unified workload platforms, and PaaS improvements.

5. Optimize Ubers infrastructure efficiency, focusing on ARM adoption, autoscaling enhancements, and cost-effective compute allocation.

6. Proactively mentor other engineers and help define the technical direction for your team, ensuring Ubers backend infrastructure remains reliable, scalable, and efficient.

What You Will Need / Bonus Points

Basic Qualifications

1. 8+ years of experience in backend software development with distributed systems, infrastructure, or cloud platforms.

2. Strong expertise in Go, Java, or similar backend languages, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and high-scale systems.

3. Experience leading cross-team or team-wide projects focused on system modernization, performance optimizations, and deployment safety improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience designing and implementing highly available, efficient, and secure cloud-native/kubernetes architectures

2. Deep understanding of safe deployment strategies, workload automation, and resilience engineering.

3. Strong experience in scaling autoscaling solutions, ARM adoption, hybrid cloud, or GPU support for ML workloads.

4. Ability to lead complex, cross-team engineering projects and build strategic relationships with stakeholders across platform, security, and infrastructure teams.

Read more about some of our work:

1. Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud

2. Odin: Ubers stateful platform

3. uBuild: Fast and Safe Building of Thousands of Container Images

4. Vertical CPU Scaling: Reduce Cost of Capacity and Increase Reliability

5. Cinnamon: Using Century Old Tech to Build a Mean Load Shedder

6. Locking Down the Fleet: Encryption at Rest and Disk Isolation at Scale

7. Uber Denmark

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - lets move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.