Software Engineer II, Internal Development Tooling

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. As an engineer in our Developer Platform team, you'll be at the heart of innovation, powering the technology that keeps Uber at the forefront of transportation and delivery innovations across 10,000+ cities worldwide.

As an Internal Development Tooling Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the development experience for engineers at Uber. Your focus will be on building, optimizing, and maintaining high-impact internal tools that enhance developer productivity, workflows, and overall engineering efficiency. You will collaborate closely with engineers across multiple teams to understand their pain points, automate repetitive tasks, and provide scalable solutions that empower Uber’s engineering organization.

We create and contribute to open source software and collaborate with other industry leading tech companies with the belief that every developer should be productive.

What You'll Do

1. Build elegant backend platform components for high throughput and low latency distributed systems.

2. Solve challenging problems with cutting edge design and algorithms.

3. You will work with others in the team to maintain the health of our systems and code base, keep development hygienes, refactor and make improvements, keep our systems robust and resilient.

4. Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.

5. Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence design for scalability and testability.

6. Work with smart and motivated teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What You'll Need

1. 4+ years of backend software engineering experience with Strong CS fundamentals.

2. Extensive software design and development skills. Ability to learn, and adapt to new technologies and contribute in a productive environment.

3. Expertise in one or more object oriented programming languages (e.g. Java, Golang, Python).

4. Experience with production-quality services, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.

5. Background in distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra).

6. Ability to decompose complex problems into clean, extensible, performant services and systems.

7. Self-driven to identify opportunities to make things better and efficient.

8. Thoughtfulness. High adaptability. A willingness to learn.

9. Experience mentoring team members & being a trusted advisor

10. A team player attitude. You believe that you can achieve more on a team - that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement and you help others by returning the favor.

Bonus points

1. You have prior experience working on features end-to-end, including frontend, backend and database.

2. Background in building high performance, scalable distributed systems.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.