Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Core Services

Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Core Services Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Type: Full-Time ### **About the Team** The Core Services Team builds and maintains the mission-critical, high-throughput, and fault-tolerant foundational services that power the entire Uber platform. This includes global-scale services for Safety, Identity, Payments, and other core business logic. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader who operates with a broad scope, influencing the technical direction not just within your team but across multiple dependent platform and product teams. You will drive the design and implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems, setting a high bar for engineering excellence and mentoring senior engineers across the organization. ### **What You'll Do** - Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, resilient backend services and distributed systems for core platform components (e.g., ensuring high availability, sub-millisecond latency, and strict data consistency). - Own complex backend technical initiatives that impact major product areas or multiple infrastructure and cross-platform engineering teams. - Drive technical decision-making and establish architectural standards and patterns for the wider Core Services organization, focusing on scalability, security, and multi-region fault tolerance. - Implement critical, high-performance backend features and microservices using modern languages (e.g., Go, Java) and infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Cassandra, Redis), ensuring they are secure and maintainable. - Champion a culture of operational excellence by establishing best practices for observability, proactive monitoring, automated load testing, and incident response. - Aggressively identify and resolve systemic technical debt, architectural bottlenecks, and non-performant queries/logic across foundational backend systems. - Partner closely with Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers to define technical roadmaps that align with long-term business strategy, specifica