About the Role
Catalogs are the backbone of the UberEats platform.
As the Catalog Experience Team, our mission is to empower any merchant to grow their business and extend their reach by providing applications and solutions to create and maintain a complete, accurate and optimized representation of their catalog and inventory to drive the success of our $50B business.
The Catalog Experience team serves over a million merchants across the globe and manages hundreds of terabytes of data. The services that the team owns serves tens of thousands requests per minute that are being served to tens of millions of eaters every day.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Lead projects, design and develop new systems, tools and dashboards to help us continue to scale the UberEats business globally.
• Partner with subject matter experts, both within and outside the team, to find innovative end-to-end solutions to complex business problems.
• Use a data-driven approach and work closely with the Data Science team to use machine learning models to optimize the catalogs.
• Improve and manage complex software architectures that involve databases, cache stores, message queues and so on, adhering to strict requirements concerning consistency, performance, stability, scalability and availability.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 3-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 2-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:

• • Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
• Note the 2-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

---- Preferred ----

• Product engineering
• Scalability engineering
• Distributed systems

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $174,000 per year - $193,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.