Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering Department: Engineering Team: Engineering Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time # **About the role:** The Capacity & Efficiency Engineering (CEE) organization is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in San Francisco. This role requires a unique blend of expertise in capacity engineering (Planning, forecasting, allocation), data engineering, and full-stack development. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, capable of designing, implementing, and optimizing complex systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. As a Sr. Staff software engineer, you will define and own the vision of this team to drive accountability across the company for multi-billion dollars spent on platforms. Your scope will include building deep analytical tools for understanding consumption patterns of infrastructure, liaising with stakeholders across the company to find inefficiencies and work with them to make our systems lean and efficient. You'll build and enhance our capacity analytics products that help drive our cost-to-serve efficiency programs while we grow Uber’s infrastructure in the cloud. **Responsibilities:** As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be the key technical leader driving efficiency, scalability, and financial accountability across Uber's engineering organization. You will leverage deep Data Engineering expertise to architect systems that directly influence strategic resource decisions. - **Strategic Capacity Management (Planning, Forecasting, & Allocation):** - Serve as the technical authority for strategic capacity planning and resource allocation. You will work across Uber to forecast future needs, proactively identify organizational capacity gaps, and establish technical guardrails to ensure resource efficiency within our budget. - **Data-Driven Financial Visibility & Actionability:** - Architect, design, and lead the development of essential, high-scale Engineering infrastructure. This platform will provide organization-wide visibility and actionabi