Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: New York, United States Type: Full-Time ### **About the Role** As a **Staff Engineer (5B)** in Core Infrastructure, you will be a key technical leader responsible for the architecture and evolution of the systems that power Uber’s global business. You will engage with stakeholders across the company to lead the development of backend solutions that support every trip, delivery, and infrastructure tool used at Uber. We are moving to build a "cloud-native by default" ecosystem that is secure, reliable, and hyperscale-efficient. You will own the technical roadmap for critical sub-systems, ensuring they are prepared for 1M+ concurrent trips and the massive compute demands of Generative AI and Autonomous Vehicle data. ### **About the Team** The **Core Infrastructure Platform** team builds the next generation of Uber’s orchestration, foundation, and networking layers. We manage a complex fleet spanning on-prem data centers and multiple public clouds, supporting a diverse variety of workloads (stateless, batch, streaming, and ML). Our goal is to create abstractions so that Uber developers can deploy anywhere in the world with the touch of a button—making infrastructure "just work." We are active contributors to the open-source community (Kubernetes, CNCF) and regularly present our innovations at industry conferences like KubeCon. ### **What the Candidate Will Do** - **Lead Architectural Evolution:** Identify architectural gaps in our compute and networking stacks; lead projects from ideation to global execution to fill those gaps (e.g., migrating to standardized CNI/Envoy or implementing shared GPU pools). - **Drive Efficiency at Scale:** Design and implement solutions to increase fleet-wide CPU utilization (targeting 40%+) and accelerate ARM adoption to optimize Uber’s unit costs. - **Modernize for Multi-Cloud:** Lead the technical strategy for "Thrive in Cloud," ensuring our foundations are resilient, active-active across providers, and support rapid regional failover. - **Integrate AIOps & Automation:*