Principal Engineer - Maps

Principal Engineer - Maps Department: Engineering Team: Engineering Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Principal engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple programs, projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design and architect highly-available, secure scalable and resilient systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also approachable leaders with a point of view within a larger group.  They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of passionate engineers while also delivering uniquely challenging projects. A Principal-level Engineering role at Uber is special, representing  the top 2% of Engineers at Uber. The Maps team is looking for an exceptional Principal Engineer that will lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Uber’s GeoSearch platform. GeoSearch powers how users discover, interpret, and retrieve places, points-of-interest, and addresses across our platform, including powering the ‘Where to?’ auto-complete search experience on Uber’s Mobility App landing page. The MapSearch platform sits at the core of critical product experiences, combining large-scale retrieval, ranking, query understanding, and real-time serving to deliver highly relevant results under strict latency constraints. This is a  unique opportunity to solve deep technical challenges and have a broad impact across Uber’s business. **What You’ll Do** - **Define the Vision:** Translate ambiguous long-term business needs into long-term technical strategy and roadmap, ensuring Uber’s GeoSearch architecture scales with evolving product needs and global traffic demands - **Evaluate and Execute on New Solutions:** Lead the design and implementation of novel systems that leverage search query understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization and recommendation to drive session conversion and delightful experiences for our Riders, Eaters, and Earners - **Drive Business Impact:** Go beyond ideat