Company overview
- Sector
- Technology, Software & IT Services
- Sub-sector
- Internet
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $52,000,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 24,651
- India headcount
- 1,000-2,000
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Hyderabad
GCC notes
Maps, pricing algorithms, driver/rider platform and data platform engineering
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .NET
- ACL
- AI
- AMP
- ANGEL LMS
- ANSYS
- API Gateway
- AWS Analytics
- AWS Data Lake Storage
- AWS SDK for JavaScript
- AWS SDKs
- AWS Transfer for SFTP
- AWS VPN
- Adform DMP
- Adobe Real-Time CDP
Public leadership
Prabhjeet Singh
President, Uber India & South Asia
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Backend Engineers; ML Engineers (Maps/Surge); Data Scientists; Product Managers; Mobile Engineers (iOS/Android)
Research overview
Uber Technologies, Inc. is a US multinational headquartered in San Francisco, operating ride-hailing, courier, food-delivery and freight-transport services across roughly 70 countries and 15,000 cities. Founded in 2010, Uber has facilitated over 72 billion trips and delivery orders to date and generated about $52.0 billion in revenue in 2025 under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
- India launch
- 2013
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
The India centers own core global IP (Maps, pricing/surge algorithms, driver-rider platform and data-platform engineering) and staff the full product-development stack - backend engineering, ML, data science, product management, and mobile - rather than back-office or single-domain support, indicating an end-to-end engineering GCC embedded in Uber's global roadmap.
Location rationale
Bengaluru is India's deepest software/ML engineering talent pool and a hub for other global-capability centers, letting Uber build and own core global products (Maps, surge/pricing algorithms, rider-driver matching) locally. Hyderabad provides a secondary, cost-efficient engineering talent pool used to scale platform and data-engineering capacity alongside Bengaluru.
Timeline
- 2013
Uber launches ride-hailing service in India, starting in Bengaluru
- 2020-01
Uber sells its India Uber Eats food-delivery business to Zomato
- 2025-07
Uber expands Intercity ride service and rolls out affordability-focused ride features in India
- 2026-01
Uber India announces a road-safety partnership with Bengaluru City Police
- 2026-04-16
Uber Bike runs a promotional ₹25 ride campaign tied to IPL 2026
- 2026-04-29
Uber India launches 'GO-GET 2026: One app for everything' initiative
Leadership context
On-file leadership record: Prabhjeet Singh, President, Uber India & South Asia. This session was unable to independently reverify his current status - extensive attempts to reach business-press sources (ET, Moneycontrol, LiveMint, Business Standard, Times of India), Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and general web search were blocked (HTTP 403 or robots.txt disallow) or returned no relevant results; Uber's own newsroom, blog, About/company-info, and global corporate leadership pages made no mention of Prabhjeet Singh or any successor. The reported possibility that he has left for another company could NOT be confirmed or denied with a checkable source in this session.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Backend Engineers
- ML Engineers (Maps/Surge)
- Data Scientists
- Product Managers
- Mobile Engineers (iOS/Android)
News and developments
GO-GET 2026: One app for everything
Uber India announced an initiative consolidating more services into a single app experience.
2026-04-29 Uber Newsroom (India) ↗
Uber Bike takes centre stage this IPL with ₹25 bike rides
Uber ran a promotional two-wheeler ride campaign in India timed to the IPL 2026 cricket season.
2026-04-16 Uber Newsroom (India) ↗
Uber India safety partnership with Bengaluru Police
Uber India entered a road-safety collaboration with Bengaluru City Police.
2026-01 Uber Newsroom (India) ↗
Uber Intercity expansion and affordability features
Uber expanded its Intercity travel service and introduced new affordability-focused ride features in India.
2025-07 Uber Newsroom (India) ↗
Sources
- Wikipedia - Uber: parentSnapshot ↗
- Wikipedia - Uber: timeline (2020 Zomato sale) ↗
- Uber Newsroom (India): recentNews / timeline (2025-2026 items) ↗
- Uber global leadership page: leadershipBio (verification attempt) ↗
- Not independently reverified this session (widely documented public record of 2013 Bengaluru launch): indiaLaunchYear
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.