# Staff Software Engineer – Service Mesh & Networking

About the Role Every service at Uber relies on the service mesh to find, reach, and trust the services it depends on, and the 1M+ concurrent trips Uber supports depend on it. The Service Mesh team builds and operates this layer across Uber's global infrastructure, where every millisecond the mesh adds contributes to the critical path of user-facing requests, efficiency gains translate directly into compute capacity, and every change must be designed to roll out safely. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team, you will set technical direction for the proxy and networking infrastructure that carries Uber's service-to-service traffic. You will own problems end to end, from design through production rollout and long-term operation, working across Uber's security, network, compute, and storage stacks and with the product engineering teams whose services run on the mesh. What You'll Do Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for the service mesh forwarding layer, including how core components of a live system evolve incrementally while traffic keeps flowing. Drive down the latency and compute cost of the forwarding path, from proxy performance to smarter load balancing across hosts a

- **Id**: 3777562
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/uber-staff-software-engineer-service-mesh-networking>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, 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**: 2026-11-04T19:40:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T15:34:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4508
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Transportation & Logistics, Delivery, 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
- **Envoy** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **Gateway API** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T23:46:29Z

## 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**: 3
- **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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