Uber invests a substantial annual marketing budget to attract and engage customers-including Riders, Drivers, Couriers, and Eaters-across a variety of channels, from traditional TV and print ads to digital mobile and web advertising.
The Ad Tech team is responsible for building the technological foundation to scale this advertising effort. We leverage data science, including models and LLMs, to achieve intelligent optimization and automation throughout the entire process. Our work spans the advertising loop, from initial budgeting and spend allocation to the granular optimization of which content is shown to whom and when. By maximizing the efficiency of a multi-billion-dollar advertising budget, the Ad Tech team is a critical enabler of Uber's growth, sharply focused on maximizing user acquisition and retention through effective marketing.
The Measurement and Optimization team within Ad Tech is seeking talented individuals to drive automated, intelligent decision-making for Uber's marketing investment. This is a high-impact role where you will define and execute the technical roadmap to measure, test, automate, and optimize Uber's significant marketing and brand spend. This work is crucial, as it directly drives substantial cost savings and contributes to Uber's growth across users, trips, and gross bookings. Join us if you are interested in building Uber's next-generation Marketing platform.

• What You'll Do
• Design and Deliver:** Design, build, and deliver end-to-end marketing features that track, measure, report, execute and test and on Billions of ad spend and achieve efficient return on investment.- Develop Services and products: Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and reliable services and backend systems to handle channel-specific complexities.- AI Infrastructure Modernization: Modernize our tech stack to build a relevant contextual layer for AI-driven systems. Bridge the gap between petabyte-scale data and LLMs by developing low-latency retrieval systems and knowledge architectures that power highly accurate and context-aware AI features.- Data Engineering: Consume petabyte-scale impression and click-level data. Leverage experience with large-scale data and Big Data technologies to build scalable data pipelines that support various ad tech use cases.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Data Science, and Marketing to experiment with new optimization strategies and build scalable production systems to operationalize successful approaches.- Platform Integration: Collaborate with other Uber engineering teams to leverage and influence the roadmap of internal platforms like Michelangelo (ML), Bullseye (Audience Builder), Morpheus (Experimentation), and Flow (Workflow Automation).**- Keep the bar high on sustainable engineering by following best engineering practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.

What You'll Need:

• Basic Qualifications
• Experience:** At least 6-10 years of software engineering experience**- Education:** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.- Coding:Proven knowledge of Python, Spark, Java 8+ or Golang is amust-have with at least3 years of recent experience in either.- Data Processing and Analysis: Experience in Batch/Stream data processing and Big Data technology and analysis.**

Preferred Qualifications:

• Architecture skills: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture. You can discuss the tradeoff between architectural choices, both on a theoretical level and on an applied level.
• High coding standards (TDD, Clean Code)
• Proven track record within a production environment
• A phenomenal teammate approach: You believe that you can achieve more on a team - that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' feedback for continuous improvement.
• Understanding business and design requirements, whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to detail leads to a delightful user experience.
• Experience querying data using SQL
• Ad Tech experience is a huge plus

At Uber, we reimagine the way the world moves for the better. The idea was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then, our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We've grown into a global platform moving people and things in ever-expanding ways, taking on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters make movement happen at the push of a button for everyone, everywhere.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.

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.

Uber is committed to a safe workplace. We have implemented COVID-19 safety protocols that meet or exceed local public health guidelines. Workplace safety remains our number one priority. As a result, and depending on the workplace location, Uber either requires or recommends employees be vaccinated to access any of our facilities; this is subject to change solely at the Company's discretion.

• For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD**$202,000 per year**
• USD**$224,000 per year**.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

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.

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.