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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Risk

Uber

$257,000 - $285,500
Sep 30, 2025
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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Uber's Risk Engineering team needs to address complex problems in risk and fraud domains by building cutting-edge real-time fraud detection and prevention systems that scale to millions of users leveraging large scale data, distributed systems, and advanced machine learning technologies.

Requirements

  • Deep technical expertise and proven technical leadership/technical influence across wide organization
  • Previous experience with Risk, Fraud Detection
  • Experiences with Applied Machine Learning
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to contribute to long term technical vision, to scope, create and successfully deploy new technical strategies / initiatives / capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable solutions to address fraud and abuse problems as well as drive better user experiences across Uber Products and Lines of Businesses
  • Work with cross functional teams (Product Managers, Data Scientists/Analysts, Program engineers, Machine Learning Engineers) to identify any product/functionality gaps, define the problem space, contribute to product requirements, design and develop system solutions.
  • Contribute to longer term technical roadmap and drive overall system architecture betterment for Risk product Engineering.
  • Identify systemic opportunities and preempting architectural risks before these become bottlenecks.
  • Provide thought leadership including challenge the status quo when needed.
  • Lead the problem identification and formulation, software design and architecture, and guide cross-functional product and engineering teams to deliver high impact technology solutions to address complex problems in risk and fraud domains.
  • Foresee architectural problems and opportunities within the organization and lead the technical direction for long term system architecture betterment and modernization.

Other

  • 10+ years experience.
  • Capable of creating structure and driving progress in an ambiguous environment
  • Team player with good communication skills.
  • Experience to interact with cross-functional teams from multiple geo-locations
  • Mentor, coach, and multiply: proactively mentor senior engineers and influence teams across the broader Risk