About the Role
The Media Platform team builds Uber’s unified, scalable infrastructure for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering media that powers global Safety and Trust products. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and evolution of high-performance distributed systems that process large-scale video and media workloads reliably and cost-efficiently. Your work will directly enable real-time safety use cases by ensuring media intelligence systems — including ML-powered insights — operate with low latency, high availability, and strong compliance guarantees.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Architect and scale distributed backend systems that support media ingestion, processing, intelligence, and delivery across global regions.
- Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-throughput media pipelines.
- Design infrastructure that enables efficient integration and execution of ML inference workloads within media systems.
- Drive technical strategy and long-term architectural decisions across the Media Platform.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for engineering excellence, operational rigor, and system design.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale service architecture.
- Strong backend engineering experience (Go, Java, C++, or similar) with expertise in system design, performance optimization, and reliability.
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency services handling large data volumes (streaming, storage, or media systems).
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Experience building or operating media, video, or real-time streaming pipelines.
- Familiarity with ML-powered systems (e.g., integrating model inference services, optimizing ML workloads, or supporting ML pipelines in production).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience designing privacy-aware or compliance-driven systems at scale.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 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. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.
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 fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
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.