Sr Software Engineer (Backend) - GenAI

UberSunnyvale, CAfull_timesenior

$202,000 – $224,000 USD

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own and operate customer-facing systems that influence the support experience for millions of users
  • Drive end-to-end execution: identify ecosystem changes needed across Uber engineering, align stakeholders, build consensus, and deliver production-ready implementations
  • Build and scale full-stack systems that embed AI into real customer workflows and solve distributed systems challenges under heavy traffic
  • Help reduce issue resolution from minutes to seconds by improving automation quality, reliability, and user experience
  • Design and deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable conversational experiences by combining LLM prompting, Uber's assistant-building platforms, and robust backend services

Soft Skills

Written CommunicationArchitecture ReviewsStakeholder AlignmentTechnical Decision-Making

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance

Culture

Customer-ObsessedImpact-OrientedAutonomous Teams

Requirements

Required: BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Regions: Us

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About Uber
Industry: transportation
Size: enterprise

Uber's AI Foundations & Developer Experience (AIFX) team is building the infrastructure for Agentic Dev Environments (ADEs), where AI agents participate in the software development lifecycle, to enable every team at Uber to ship faster.

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Compensation
Base salary: $202,000 – $224,000 USD
Equity: May be offered an equity award & other types of comp.
Bonus: Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program