# Staff Software Engineer Michelangelo Control Plane

About the role and team Leading at Uber means setting direction in motion, not waiting for perfect conditions. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical anchor for the Michelangelo Control Plane, the foundation that orchestrates the lifecycle of ML pipelines, training jobs, models, and deployments for hundreds of teams across Uber. Our mission is to make transportation as reliable as running water, and we need technical powerhouses to build the dependable, high-performance foundation that supports that vision. This is a role for a proven, large-scale systems thinker who thrives in high-stakes environments. You will navigate the "messy" reality of complex infrastructure spanning global data centers and multiple cloud providers, supporting a wide variety of ML workloads. You will make smart decisions with imperfect information and own the outcomes of architectural choices that affect every ML workflow at Uber. If you lead with clarity, build with heart, and are motivated by the challenge of reliability and efficiency at unparalleled scale, this is where you'll make your mark. What you'll do - Own the architecture and technical roadmap of the Michelangelo control plane, in

- **Id**: 3887575
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/uber-staff-software-engineer-michelangelo-control-plane>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T19:06:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T15:34:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4360
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Freight Forwarding, Online Groceries, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 230
- **Name**: Uber
- **Domain**: uber.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/uber>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 157
- **Ghost share**: 0.038
- **Stale share**: 0.535
- **Repost share**: 0.089
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 12
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 232000
- **Max**: 258000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 258000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **etcd** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T20:09:41Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 837 · green card filings: 258; Filings 12m: 837

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 258000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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