Uber
Software Engineer II, Matching Platform
UberUnited States4 days ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
About The Role

Uber is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Matching Platform team. This team sits at the core of Uber's real-time marketplace, ensuring that riders and drivers are matched efficiently, fairly, and at scale.

Matching is one of Uber's most complex and impactful engineering problems, requiring expertise in high-scale distributed systems, real-time decision-making, and machine learning infrastructure. As a Senior Engineer, you'll play a key role in evolving our matching architecture, improving system efficiency, and enabling Uber's next-generation ML-powered matching capabilities. This is an opportunity to work on one of Uber's most business-critical domains with massive global impact.

Some Of The Problems You'll Be Working On Include

  • Building a highly scalable matching platform - handling millions of ride requests per second with ultra-low latency.
  • Designing extensible architectures - creating a modular and flexible platform that allows new product innovations without complex rewrites.
  • Evolving the ML platform for matching - enabling real-time inference, model deployment, and experimentation at scale.

What The Candidate Will Do

  • Build and scale a low-latency platform powering millions of real-time match decisions per second
  • Design modular systems that accelerate product innovation without rework
  • Optimize for fairness, efficiency, and marketplace health at global scale
  • Collaborate across product, infra, and ML teams to deliver business-critical impact

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 3-year full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-year total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
  • Note the 3-year total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The year of specialized experience is not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Experience with distributed systems or microservice architectures.
  • Experience with relational databases and distributed storage systems (MySQL, Cassandra).
  • Passion for learning new technologies
  • Experience with shipping efficient, reliable, crash-free code that reaches millions of users.

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.

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