Senior Staff Engineer

About The Role
The Earner Financials group is a foundational part of Uber's Earner organization. Our mission is to enable Uber to be the most reliable and rewarding earnings platform for drivers and couriers across the globe. This organization spans four mission-critical verticals:

• Earnings : To provide earners with clear, consistent, and easily accessible data and visibility into their earnings, performance metrics, and financial status. Help drivers understand their earnings, and strategize on mechanisms to improve their earnings.
• Benefits : A growing portfolio of benefits such as Earning Guarantees, Accrual Benefits and 3rd Party Benefits that Uber provides to the gig workers.
• Subscription : To offer earner-facing subscription products, such as Drive Pass which provide benefits like 0% service fees, and enable earners to evaluate the effectiveness of their subscription through relevant metrics.
• Tipping : Experiences that foster appreciation from riders and eaters to earners.

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer (L6) to lead the technical direction and architecture across all verticals in the Earner Financials space. You will be the technical voice for systems that are under intense regulatory scrutiny , responsible for ensuring absolute accuracy , auditability , compliance , and resilience . You'll be driving engineering direction in one of the most sensitive and high-stakes domains at Uber. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will be directly responsible for multiple projects from inception to production readiness and will define and deliver on the goals and technical direction within the organization with a sense of urgency. You will be expected to foresee architectural problems and opportunities the organization will face a year out and work with engineering leadership to address them proactively.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
What the Candidate Will Do

• Architect the future of Earner Financial systems: designing reliable, scalable, and extensible financial platforms that ensure transactional integrity, compliance with local/global regulations, and real-time transparency.
• Own and drive the long-term technical strategy across Earner Financials verticals, identifying systemic opportunities and preempting architectural risks before they become bottlenecks.
• Lead cross-functional efforts in collaboration with engineering managers, engineering leads, data science, product design, product management, legal, policy and operations teams to translate regulatory requirements and business rules into scalable engineering solutions.
• Define and raise engineering standards in observability, reliability, SLOs, incident response, testing, and security . Ensuring mission-critical systems remain performant and correct under all conditions.
• Mentor, coach, and multiply : proactively mentor senior engineers and influence teams across the broader Earner organization, fostering a culture of simplicity, technical rigor, and business alignment.
• Champion compliance and audit readiness by embedding regulatory guarantees into the core architecture of our financial stack.
• Drive execution of large-scale, multi-quarter projects , directly influencing technical roadmaps across multiple engineering teams.
• Consistently write and document high-quality code to solve strategically important problems; improve, role model, and promote coding best practices; lead organization-wide development and adoption of key frameworks.

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure in architecting large-scale distributed systems .
• Deep expertise in designing transactional systems that are correct, auditable, and resilient under regulatory requirements.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles and backend technologies (e.g., Java, Go).
• Track record of leading cross-org technical strategies , defining architectural vision, and delivering large, complex systems into production.
• Experience leading org-wide reliability and observability initiatives, including definition and management of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Excellent communication skills : able to translate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, including non-engineering audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead org-wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages, including idea inception, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, requirements gathering, design, balancing priorities, implementation, productionization, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or adjacent to compliance-heavy domains (e.g., payments, banking, insurance, or healthcare).
• Proven history of passing regulatory audits or operating under strict financial controls (e.g., SOX, SOC2, FedRamp, PCI-DSS, GDPR).
• Contributions to internal engineering frameworks or external technical communities.
• Demonstrated success in engineering leadership within multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience in defining and promoting architecture best practices within an organization.

Bonus / Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Generative AI, LLMs, or ML-based infrastructure: especially applications in compliance automation, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML systems in financial applications (e.g., fraud detection, adaptive pricing, earnings prediction, personalized earnings insights).
• Deep interest in leveraging AI responsibly in regulated environments.