Senior Staff Software Engineer: Data & Storage Platform

Senior Staff Software Engineer: Data & Storage Platform Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Sunnyvale, United States Type: Full-Time ## **About the Role** Uber’s Data Platform is the heart of the company’s critical decision-making and AI-driven intelligence. We are evolving from traditional data processing toward a **Next-Generation Data Intelligence Platform**—a unified, elastic fabric that collapses the silos between batch, streaming, and multimodal data. As a **Senior Staff Engineer**, you will be the architect behind Uber’s **Elastic Compute**, **Unified Semantic Layer**, and **Self-Evolving Knowledge Platform**. You will lead the transition from legacy on-premise systems to a **Modern, Cloud-Native Ecosystem**, designing solutions that handle exabytes of data. Whether it’s optimizing **Transactional Distributed Storage**, or operationalizing **Agentic Data Intelligence**, your work will define the industry standard for high-performance infrastructure. What You Will Do - Architect the Multi-Modal Fabric: Unify batch, streaming, and AI compute into one intelligent fabric, enabling real-time insights and trustworthy AI agents at a global scale. - Revolutionize Storage & Catalog: Drive the architecture for a unified catalog and metadata management service for unstructured data, leveraging native cloud object store capabilities. - Operationalize AI Intelligence: Partner with teams like QueryCopilot and DataIQ to bridge human validation with autonomous reasoning through agentic workflows. - Lead Storage Modernization: Evolve our massive-scale persistence layers—including Docstore (Transactional Distributed Storage) and Distributed MySQL—to increase resiliency and reduce operational overhead. - Open Source & Act as a force multiplier by contributing to the community (Hudi, Iceberg, Presto). Basic Qualifications ---- - 14+ Years of Engineering Excellence: Proven experience designing and operating world-class distributed data and storage systems. - Mastery of Storage Internals: Extensive storage experience is a must. You have deep expertise in: - Batch & Object Storage: HDFS, Cloud Object Sto