Uber is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Container Platform Infrastructure group. As a manager within Infrastructure you will have a significant impact on 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 build the next generation of Uber's container orchestration platform that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. At Uber we have a complex infrastructure spanning both data centers and cloud, supporting a diverse variety of workloads (stateless, batch, stateful) each different in its characteristics and requirements. Here are some examples (Link1, Link2) of the work that we do.
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Engineering Managers at Uber exhibit the following qualities:
- Builds Trust › Demonstrates personal excellence with empathy, authenticity, inclusivity, and fairness.
- Grows and Adapts › Shows the ability to adapt to resilience and humility.
- Sets Vision › Establishes team purpose and plans for execution.
- Operationalize › Ensures operational efficiency and impact.
- Develops and Coaches › Invests time in coaching and supports the development of others.
- Connects › Fosters collaboration within and across teams.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
Proficiency in Operating Systems, Linux, Virtualization, Containerization (Docker/containerd), and Cluster Management (Kubernetes,
Mesos) technologies.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Experience. 10+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms. Including 5+ years in
- managing engineering teams of 10+ people.
- Ability to lead teams in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and collaborate with stakeholder and sister teams in the US.
- Hiring prowess. You're a strong leader who can attract talent in Amsterdam, raising the bar for excellence.
- Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as
- possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way - and you're comfortable making mistakes,
- provided you and your team learn from them.
- Engineering excellence. You have the technical strength and deep knowledge of the whole stack to give phenomenal architecture and
- implementation mentorship to the teams who will count on your experience.
- Mentoring. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success, through mentoring, teaching, and
- reviewing.
- Dedication. Cities never sleep, and neither does Uber. You care tremendously about keeping the Uber experience consistent for users and
- strive to make any issues invisible to riders. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking
- ownership of problems that may not even be in your team's scope
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Provide product and technical leadership, set goals that produce value to the business, and uphold high technical standards for your team
- Boost operational efficiency and development productivity of the team
- Manage and grow individual team members, 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
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.
*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.