Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform
UberAmsterdam, NetherlandsPosted 10 March 2026
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Department: Engineering
Team: Backend
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Type: Full-Time
## **About the team**
At Uber, we handle roughly 4500 stateless services, millions of containers, and deploy more than 1000 changes daily to production across multiple geographical regions with availability zones in both Uber’s own data centers, AWS, GCP, and OCI.
Services are written in Go, Java, Kotlin, and Python with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage. All code changes are peer-reviewed.
We have great opportunities ahead, including impactful efficiency projects, building out our service platform to support other workload types, and building an integrated solution for developers to run their workloads efficiently and easily.
We strive to provide guardrails and opinionated solutions to Uber's developers to allow them to focus on writing code instead of worrying about infrastructure.
Our team consists of a balanced combination of both junior and senior engineers with a broad range of experiences across the industry. We value ideas over hierarchy, getting things done, and having a measurable impact on the business. We work closely with our partner teams in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, and Bangalore.
## **About the Role**
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform Team, interested in contributing to our platform to impact the work of thousands of engineers in a diverse stack. You will play a key role in the ongoing development and enhancement of the Developer Platform, which provides developers across the organization with tools, frameworks, AI agent support and environments to build reliable and scalable applications efficiently. Additionally, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement best practices and deliver top-tier software solutions.
### **Team's Mission**
Empower every engineer and agent with a seamless and instant development environment, whether on local (laptop) or remote (cloud)
## **Basic Qualifications**
Our team consists of engineers with