Senior Staff Engineer, JVM

Lead Technical Role in Developer Platform Teams

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Developer Platform teams based in Amsterdam. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for someone passionate about building platforms that enable thousands of engineers to move fast and ship reliably at scale.

You will drive the design, evolution, and cohesion of critical backend and developer infrastructure services used across Uber’s engineering organization. This includes build and test platforms, CI/CD, developer tooling, IDE integrations, language-specific frameworks and plugins, and open-source leadership for our backend JVM ecosystem of Kotlin, Java, and Scala. You'll play a key role in aligning technical direction across the JVM backend ecosystem, partnering closely with global counterparts and industry collaborators, mentoring senior engineers across multiple teams, and creating a best-in-class developer experience for our engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architecture and roadmap for developer platform initiatives in Amsterdam.
• Drive cross-team alignment and consistency across build systems, deployment tooling, and JVM-based frameworks.
• Deeply engage with engineers across the org to identify gaps and build long-term platform solutions.
• Act as a technical partner to engineering managers and product leaders, contributing to org-wide strategy.
• Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and technical direction to senior/staff-level engineers.
• Influence global platform initiatives and ensure strong collaboration across sites.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Proven experience operating at Staff+ level in large-scale engineering environments.
• Deep expertise in the JVM ecosystem, with hands-on experience in both Java and Kotlin.
• Prior experience with monorepos, Bazel or similar, or internal developer platforms.
• Track record of building and scaling distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer-facing platforms.
• Strong architectural thinking, especially in high-scale, multi-team environments.
• Experience influencing engineering strategy across orgs and locations.
• Experience influencing long-term product vision and ecosystem direction to serve developer customers.
• Experience leading horizontally across many teams and mentoring downstream tech leads.
• Exceptional communication and mentorship skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Build/test infrastructure for data-intensive workflows powered by Apache Spark and other distributed systems.
• Contributions to open-source JVM tooling or frameworks.
• Experience collaborating across companies and industry engagement and leadership.
• Experience building SDKs, internal libraries, backend or mobile infrastructure is a plus.

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.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.