About The Role
We are seeking an outstanding leader to manage teams responsible for Uber's repair engine. As a manager within Infrastructure, you will have a significant impact on the evolution of backend teams and architecture at Uber. Our mission is to make transportation as reliable as possible and we are looking for a passionate manager to build a dependable foundation that supports that vision.
The role will involve leading engineers responsible for Uber's core infrastructure modernization efforts, specifically focusing on core distributed systems and migration to cloud-based services. Your team will be hands-on and pivotal in developing, deploying, and scaling backend services and solutions that drive Uber's user-facing products, downstream services, and internal infrastructure tools. You'll work with cross-functional teams to ensure that Uber's systems are not only highly reliable but also scalable to support our global customer base of over 100 million+ users.
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About The Team
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining an industry-leading goal-seeking repair engine designed to ensure tenant health across instances and maintain optimal host utilization. This sophisticated system not only continuously monitors and heals infrastructure but also supports extensibility by enabling labor services to be pluggable, paving the way for the open sourcing of the Allocation Engine.
We play a critical role in defining the authoritative signal for workload tenant health and performance, ensuring workloads operate within their declared SLAs. This serves as the key contract between product and platform: while the platform has the freedom to implement infrastructural changes, it must always honor the SLA requirements. Our work results in a unified repair engine that spans all layers of the stack, including physical networking.
The repair engine is the cornerstone of maintaining steady-state health and serves as the gatekeeper for granting permissions to other systems making changes. At its core, our team is the guardian of tenant health, ensuring a reliable and resilient platform for all workloads.
What You'll Need
- Technical Leadership: Lead and manage high-performing engineering teams, including on complex modernization projects, migrating distributed systems to cloud services while aligning with Uber's architectural and performance standards.
- Hands-on engineering background: A strong foundation in software engineering, with a track record of designing, developing and maintaining robust backend services that power user-facing products and support downstream services, contributing to a seamless user experience. Experience with distributed systems with a focus on resilience, scalability, and security.
- Infrastructure Expertise: Experience with infrastructure tools and platforms that improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Expertise in fostering best practices in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and backend development.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Proven ability to work cross-functionally, effectively communicating and advocating for the team across different departments. Experience collaborating closely with Product, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end, scalable solutions.
What You'll Do
- Manage teams responsible for developing and maintaining an industry-leading goal seeking repaire engine
- Drive the technical alignment internally and with partner teams
- Own roadmap execution and delivery of projects with high quality
- Contribute to the engineering culture and uphold the processes that will shape the team
- Grow, mentor and develop a team of developers
- Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team
Basic Qualifications
- 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 in Amsterdam and collaborate with stakeholder and sister teams in The US
- Ability to attract talent in Amsterdam by setting the standard for excellence
- Experience leading engineering teams in parallel execution against high-stakes business goals and extensive engineering priorities
- Experience partnering across functions and organizational boundaries to effectively advocate for team, business, and company priorities
- Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D., and/or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Software engineering background with a strong background in backend and/or infrastructure development.
- Experience in distributed systems and core system modernization, especially within hyper-scale cloud environments.
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining hyper-scale services supporting millions of users.
Bonus Points
- Hands-on engineering experience with at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or C++).
- Experience in product engineering and scalability engineering.
- Expertise in cloud services and architecture, with experience in migration strategies and best practices.
- Knowledge of containerization, orchestration tools, and infrastructure management (Kubernetes experience is a plus).
- Proven ability to architect solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure, with a focus on performance and high availability.
- Proficiency in working with microservices architecture and backend systems within high-growth, technology-driven organizations.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and expertise in cloud-native tools.
- Familiarity with observability tools and techniques for monitoring and optimizing distributed systems.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and effectively align multiple stakeholders toward common goals.
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.