About the Role

Ads is one of Uber’s fastest-growing businesses and a key contributor to Uber’s long-term profitability. The Ads Relevance team plays a critical and multifaceted role in optimizing the Uber advertising ecosystem. Our core mission is to meticulously serve high-quality, personalized advertisements to our consumer base. This requires a delicate balance: maximizing the marketplace objective (e.g., matching the right consumer with the right ad at the right time) while diligently preserving and growing advertiser value and return on investment.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to help grow the Uber Ads business across multiple verticals - Online Food Delivery, GR and Display ads.. You’ll work with teams behind apps used by millions globally every day and be a part of the technical foundations of a new product.

What You'll Do

• Design, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance recommendations and ranking systems.
• Build a world class next gen personalized Ads delivery system that optimize Ads Marketplace
• Work with Product Managers, Machine Learning engineers, Data Scientists, Business operations and other Ads SMEs
• Improve scalability, reliability and efficiency of ads tech stack from retrieval to ranking and serving

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• AdTech experience is required
• Technical strength with experience developing and shipping code for production systems
• Strong system design skills. You know how to build highly-scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique exponential growth requirements.
• Demonstrated experience easily speaking to the operational aspects of monitoring, alerting, and structuring code for production-level debugging.
• You have a strong command of a backend stack (eg. Golang, Java, Node.js, Python, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Any experience in Retrieval, Ranking, Ads Marketplace, Auction, Quality will be very useful.
• Demonstrated examples of delivering production-level features from inception, and promoting a high-quality culture amongst the team
• Industry experience working on distributed systems: developing reliable, high performance, highly scalable, real-time and low latency software
• Demonstrable knowledge of the principles of fault-tolerance, reliability and durability.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 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.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.