About the Role
This role is on the Courier Pricing team within the Marketplace organization. As a Software Engineer II on the Courier Pricing team, you will interact with a wide range of data and analytic events to build a best-in-class pricing and incentive system to efficiently price each offer made to Uber delivery partners. This work is continuing to define the courier niche in the global delivery marketplace.
We research new models and algorithms and build platforms to serve our insights to customers at Uber scale. You will be working with world-class talent and surrounded by some of the world's most experienced engineering professionals, data scientists, and research scientists on user-facing products with global impact. This is your chance to develop groundbreaking technology that will touch every Uber trip!
What the Candidate Will Do:
- You will design, code, test, and launch backend features, data engineering pipelines, and ML-based product features at a global scale.
- Own important components of the pricing ecosystem end-to-end.
- Interact with users directly to understand pain points and improve the systems.
- Collaborate with other members of the team to ship complex projects fast and with quality.
- Solve challenging large scale data problems with cutting-edge design and algorithms.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend development, distributed systems, or data engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or functional programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or C++).
- Experience with data modeling, query optimization, and translating customer problems into system design.
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience writing tests to verify functionality and establishing monitoring systems to ensure code stability.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience identifying and reducing code-level technical debt in high-load distributed systems.
- Understanding of distributed systems and architecture.
- Proficiency with Big Data frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink) or real-time data streaming (e.g., Kafka).
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment on engineering trade-offs for complex features.
- Adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong.
- Machine learning hands on experience is preferred, however deep ML knowledge is not required
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 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. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
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This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend development, distributed systems, or data engineering
- Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or functional programming languages, such as Go, Java, Python, or C++
- Experience with data modeling, query optimization, and translating customer problems into system design
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience writing tests to verify functionality and establishing monitoring systems to ensure code stability
- Experience identifying and reducing code-level technical debt in high-load distributed systems
- Understanding of distributed systems and architecture
- Proficiency with Big Data frameworks such as Spark or Flink, or real-time data streaming such as Kafka
- Ability to exercise sound judgment on engineering trade-offs for complex features
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Machine learning hands-on experience
Uber Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Uber and has not been reviewed or approved by Uber.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide a minimum of fully paid parental leave for all parents and financial support for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy, with added credits to ease the transition. Programs extend to family medical leave and parenting support resources, indicating depth beyond baseline offerings.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive across many countries, with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health benefits, plus allowances where direct plans are not available. Wellness programs and reimbursements further reinforce access to care.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Monthly ride and meal credits, free office meals/snacks, fitness stipends, onsite gyms, and wellbeing reimbursements create meaningful everyday value. Home‑office stipends, travel medical coverage, and counseling support round out lifestyle-oriented perks.
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What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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