Software Engineer II - Developer Platform

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Code Lifecycle team within the Developer Platform organization, responsible for managing critical platforms for code hosting, code search, and ensuring system stability to maintain a green main branch. You'll own the developer experience in the code review process-architecting automated review checks, managing review-platform integrations, and overseeing the orchestration layer to streamline workflows and hosting pipelines. Your work will boost engineering velocity, elevate code quality, and empower thousands of developers across the company.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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• Own and evolve our critical code hosting, code review, and search platforms, ensuring system stability and a consistently green main branch.
• Design, build, and maintain in-house Go-based tooling for the code review workflow, including automated review checks and custom integrations.
• Drive projects end-to-end-from ideation and stakeholder alignment through implementation, productionization, and ongoing operations-making sound build vs. buy and rewrite vs. incremental trade-offs.
• Define and enforce testing, monitoring, and alerting standards; track key metrics (latency, throughput, reliability) and lead production incident response and remediation
• Measure and improve developer experience using quantitative metrics, refining workflows and productivity tools for thousands of engineers across the company
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Skilled in Go and distributed systems, championing modern design patterns, documentation, and code review tooling.
• Delivers clean, well-tested code, enforces testing and monitoring standards, tracks KPIs, and leads incident response.
• Champions Uber's values and a healthy engineering culture; mentors top talent; and drives technical debt reduction for team sustainability.
• Drives projects through all lifecycle stages-from ideation and stakeholder alignment to production and operations-making tough, company-first decisions, inspiring engineering teams around technical goals, and continuously streamlining the code hosting and review workflow.
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and advancements in software engineering.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience, including developing and deploying systems in production environments.
• Experience in developer tooling or developer productivity spaces.
• Experience using metrics to measure and improve developer experience.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  
  

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 Seattle, WA-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. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits., 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 Seattle, WA-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. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.