About the Role

Principal engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple programs, projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design and architect highly-available, secure scalable and resilient systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also approachable leaders with a point of view within a larger group.  They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of passionate engineers while also delivering uniquely challenging projects. A Principal-level Engineering role at Uber is special, representing  the top 2% of Engineers at Uber.

As a Principal Engineer on the BTE team, you’ll provide technical leadership to all BTE engineers and influence technical strategy on the BTE applications, especially designing the future of Employee Experience, that directly impacts 30k users each day. This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented people in product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to help build our next-generation experience products. In this high impact role you will interface with all major product & platform teams at Uber. The role requires strong communication, leadership and technical chops along with deep understanding of security and AI technologies.

More specifically, the BTE team is responsible for developing and managing technology solutions for all Uber workforce. There is an opportunity for us to leverage AI, Gen AI and automation to design a seamless experience for employees. As a passionate principal engineer you will be creating world class technology experiences with a focus on abstracting the complexity from end users and developing highly personalized experience. The key focus for this role will be to enhance employee productivity and deliver magical experiences.

What You’ll Do

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

• Consistently writes and documents high-quality code to solve strategically important problems; improves, role models, and promotes coding best practices; leads cross-organization development and adoption of key frameworks
• Play the role of coach and mentor to SWEs in the team and uplevel design, architecture and coding practices
• Provide high quality code and design review feedback to other engineers; defines, evangelizes and leads the adoption of standards and best practices within the organization for code and design reviews
• Evangelize technologies and their appropriate application across organizations
• Cultivates a culture that values training and documentation within their organization such as technical writing for engineers (e.g. API, onboarding, operations runbooks), or users (e.g. user guides, training content, Engucation, Stack Overflow responses)

DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

• Hands-on leadership in building highly available, extensible, scalable, robust and resilient architectures
• Foresees architectural problems and/or opportunities that the organization will face a year out. Works with engineering leadership to address them before they become an issue
• Make intelligent bets on high-impact innovations and use good judgment to fail fast when necessary
• Sets standard for architecture best practices across organizations
• Design long-lasting engineering artifacts that reduces complexity, balances eng-wide migration cost, increases developer velocity, and improves efficiency and reliability across multiple organizations
• Takes a critical area impacting multiple organizations and up-level the technical trajectory of that area directly and indirectly over several years

COLLABORATION & LEADERSHIP

• Creates an inclusive environment to promote open communication and leverages the ideas/opinions of others from diverse perspectives and encourages team members to recognize their value
• Builds strategic relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g. engineers, product managers, designers, operations representatives) and external partners to deliver on organizational goals
• Serves as a representative for the organization to the broader internal and external technical community
• Demonstrates the ability to lead org-wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages. This includes idea inception, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, requirements gathering, design, balancing priorities, implementation, productionisation, and operations
• Makes, embraces, and rallies org decisions that are good for Uber, even if that results in challenges for the individual or for the direct team or org
• Inspire & rally engineers in their org to deliver on the technical vision, making the right trade-offs with a bias for action
• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple teams to ensure effective delivery of project or organizational goals and objectives

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and building large-scale engineering projects, including multiple generations of end-user applications serving millions of users
• Experience in developing business technology applications, such as chatbots and personalized employee portals, with a focus on creating seamless and user-friendly experiences

Bonus Points If

• Advanced degree

• Extensive experience Hands-on experience building AI/ML applications

About the Team

The Business Technology Engineering (BTE) group offers an array of services and products to enable Uber Employees to do their job well and to enable the Business to serve Uber Customers better. By offering a best-in-class suite of services and products, we ensure that every Uber employee has the tools and support needed to perform optimally. In many instances, BTE is integral to our business operations, directly managing customer interactions through support portals and call centers.

Our commitment is to accelerate business outcomes through superior applications and strategic partnerships.  We are a cornerstone of the business, enabling our world-class engineers, sales professionals, and marketers to collaborate effectively and deliver exceptional results. Positioned uniquely within the enterprise, we possess a holistic view that allows us to identify and seize opportunities that might elude other departments.

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For all US locations, 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.