About The Role

Uber is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Container Platform Infrastructure group. As a manager within Infrastructure, you will significantly impact the evolution of Uber's backend teams and architecture. Our mission is to make transportation as reliable as running water, and we are looking for a passionate manager to build the dependable foundation that supports that vision.

The Container Platform team's mission is to bring to reality the next-generation container orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient.

At Uber, we have a complex infrastructure spanning both on-prem data centers and multiple cloud vendors, operating a diverse variety of workloads (within: Stateless, Batch, Streaming and Stateful), each unique in its characteristics and requirements. Here are some examples of our work.

• Example 1
• Example 2
  
  

Our goal is to modernize and converge all heterogeneous use cases on a single, high-performing platform.

The team is large and geographically distributed across US, India, and Amsterdam. We expect candidates to demonstrate the following qualities:

• Influences (across borders) - Shows ability to influence own and sister teams in different geographies, each with its own culture and norms.
• Builds Trust › Demonstrates personal excellence with empathy, authenticity, inclusivity, and fairness.
• Pioneers & Sets Vision › Establishes a vision to drive business value through building capabilities and translates into an execution plan.
• Grows and Adapts › Shows the ability to adapt to changes with resilience and humility.
• Operationalize › Ensures operational efficiency and delivers impact.
• Develops and Coaches › Invests time in coaching and supports the development of others.
• Connects › Fosters collaboration within and across teams.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Provide product and technical leadership, set goals that produce value for the business, and uphold high technical standards for your team.
• Boost operational efficiency and development productivity of the team
• Manage and grow up-and-coming leaders, attract and recruit new talent responsible for ever-growing technical challenges
• Collaborate across many areas of Uber, work with other technical, product, and operation leaders across the Globe
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms.
• 5+ years in managing engineering organizations of 15+ people, including first-line managers and senior individual contributors.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Operating Systems, Linux, Virtual Machines, Container (Docker/Containerd), Cluster Management (Kubernetes, Mesos) technologies.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as: Spark, Ray, YARN, Presto, Athena and Flink
  
  

We encourage 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 encouraged to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

• Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, we'd love to hear from you please send an email to: accommodations@uber.com.