Company
Location
San Francisco, California - United States of America
Job type
Full-Time
Golang Job Details
About the Role
The Sentinel team is dedicated to building a unified Refunds and Appeasements (R&A) platform to centralize all support-initiated payouts within Uber. This role offers the chance to drive key architectural decisions for high-stakes transaction processing, aiming to accelerate experimentation velocity and significantly reduce operational risk through centralization and consistent enforcement mechanisms. You will be critical in delivering platform foundational work with an emphasis on using AI tools and solutions in an effective and creative manner.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
\\-\\-\\-\\- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Ideate on ways to fundamentally shift how the organization operates (creativity is highly encouraged!).
- Design, implement, and operate core platform APIs that orchestrate crucial financial decisioning and money movement transactions.
- Drive continuous integration and adoption of AI tools into the team's development workflow to achieve demonstrable efficiency gains in code authoring and testing.
- Develop robust configuration management structures to govern optimization rules, risk compliance mandates, and eligibility checks across various R&A flows.
\\-\\-\\-\\- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 5+ years of full-time engineering experience.
- Experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
- Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
- Experience designing and maintaining highly reliable systems with high availability and strong consistency requirements, handling crucial operational data.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design for complex platform features.
- \\-\\-\\-\\- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Proven ability to use AI across the software development cycle, utilizing tools for such as Cursor and Claude for code generation, unit test authoring, and complex documentation/design (e.g., flowcharts, runbooks, architectural documents).
- Experience engaging with and working side-by-side with Senior+ engineers from different organizations.
- Expertise in integrating complex risk and abuse mitigation checks (such as Persistence Limiters, Factual Defects, or third-party Risk Assessor calls) directly within core transactional flows.
- Proven ability to lead and coach junior engineers on the team.
- Proven background implementing and enforcing core transaction tenets such as idempotency and atomicity in distributed service architectures.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
For all US locations, 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 [](;br>
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.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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](;br>
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.
The Sentinel team is dedicated to building a unified Refunds and Appeasements (R&A) platform to centralize all support-initiated payouts within Uber. This role offers the chance to drive key architectural decisions for high-stakes transaction processing, aiming to accelerate experimentation velocity and significantly reduce operational risk through centralization and consistent enforcement mechanisms. You will be critical in delivering platform foundational work with an emphasis on using AI tools and solutions in an effective and creative manner.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
\\-\\-\\-\\- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Ideate on ways to fundamentally shift how the organization operates (creativity is highly encouraged!).
- Design, implement, and operate core platform APIs that orchestrate crucial financial decisioning and money movement transactions.
- Drive continuous integration and adoption of AI tools into the team's development workflow to achieve demonstrable efficiency gains in code authoring and testing.
- Develop robust configuration management structures to govern optimization rules, risk compliance mandates, and eligibility checks across various R&A flows.
\\-\\-\\-\\- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 5+ years of full-time engineering experience.
- Experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
- Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
- Experience designing and maintaining highly reliable systems with high availability and strong consistency requirements, handling crucial operational data.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design for complex platform features.
- \\-\\-\\-\\- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Proven ability to use AI across the software development cycle, utilizing tools for such as Cursor and Claude for code generation, unit test authoring, and complex documentation/design (e.g., flowcharts, runbooks, architectural documents).
- Experience engaging with and working side-by-side with Senior+ engineers from different organizations.
- Expertise in integrating complex risk and abuse mitigation checks (such as Persistence Limiters, Factual Defects, or third-party Risk Assessor calls) directly within core transactional flows.
- Proven ability to lead and coach junior engineers on the team.
- Proven background implementing and enforcing core transaction tenets such as idempotency and atomicity in distributed service architectures.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
For all US locations, 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 [](;br>
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.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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](;br>
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.
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