About the Role
- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----
- 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$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year.