Sr Staff Engineer, JVM

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Developer Platform teams based in Amsterdam. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for someone passionate about building platforms that enable thousands of engineers to move fast and ship reliably at scale.

You will drive the design, evolution, and cohesion of critical backend and developer infrastructure services used across Uber's engineering organization. This includes build and test platforms, CI/CD, developer tooling, IDE integrations, and language-specific frameworks. You'll play a key role in aligning technical direction across JVM-based services, partnering closely with global counterparts, and mentoring senior engineers across multiple teams.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

• What the Candidate Will Do
• Lead the architecture and roadmap for developer platform initiatives in Amsterdam
• Drive cross-team alignment and consistency across build systems, deployment tooling, and JVM-based frameworks
• Deeply engage with engineers across the org to identify gaps and build long-term platform solutions
• Act as a technical partner to engineering managers and product leaders, contributing to org-wide strategy
• Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and technical direction to senior/staff-level engineers
• Influence global platform initiatives and ensure strong collaboration across sites
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven experience operating at Staff+ level in large-scale engineering environments
• Deep expertise in the JVM ecosystem, with hands-on experience in both Java and Kotlin
• Prior experience with monorepos, Bazel or similar, or internal developer platforms
• Track record of building and scaling distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer-facing platforms
• Strong architectural thinking, especially in high-scale, multi-team environments
• Experience influencing engineering strategy across orgs and locations
• Exceptional communication and mentorship skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Build/test infrastructure to data-intensive workflows powered by Apache Spark and other distributed systems.
• Contributions to open-source JVM tooling or frameworks
• Experience building SDKs, internal libraries, backend or mobile infrastructure is a plus