About The Role

The High Capacity Vehicles Matching team is changing the way the world travels. We are unlocking ways to offer affordable transportation to the next billion people around the globe, making public transportation more convenient, efficient, comfortable, and safe. At Uber we are looking to reimagine transportation with the potential to unlock the $100 Billion transit market for consumers and businesses.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team in Uber’s Seattle office and focus on network planning software, route and schedule generation challenges, real time matching of riders and drivers in the context of high capacity vehicles, scaling network coverage and underlying microservice infrastructure ahead of the steep growth curve. You will have an opportunity to learn from the best experts in the field, make data-driven decisions based on demand observation and user behavior, and impact millions of lives in a positive way, changing the way people move for the better.

The team addresses large-scale variations of the traveling salesperson problem in real-time. At any given time, we have tens of thousands of requests and earners looking for work in a city. Our jobs are to write software that identifies who is the best driver to complete a given request, how to batch trips or orders together that have similar routes, and when the best time is to make this decision. As you could imagine, solving this NP hard problem creates many fascinating problems around how to search the problem space, how to rapidly reach a near-optimal solution, and how to scale this process to operate within seconds. To do this, our team uses a wide variety of innovative technologies.

Staff engineers at Uber are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models but also approachable leaders with vision within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely exciting projects.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement network planning tools and services for megacity scale
• Approach NP-hard routing, matching, and scheduling problems
• Deliver and operate performant and reliable distributed systems consumed by multiple teams and clients
• Work with the team and partners to define the broader architecture for the broader Logistics Org
• Mentor junior members of the team in engineering craftsmanship and professional development
• Interact cross functionally with engineering, product and operations teams and stakeholders
• Raise the bar on engineering best practices across your org to produce best in class of code, and effective documentation, testing, and monitoring.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong technical delivery, with 8+ years of experience experience building highly scalable software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience writing detailed technical documents.
• Experience with Java or Go or C++ or C#
• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, and Business partners
• Experience building software engineering solutions for prediction and optimization problems
• Familiarity with VRP problem or its variants
• Experience with Linear Programming/MILP

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber’s bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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.