About the Role
The team is looking for someone with a passion for building large scale networks, observability and operational tooling, and with an automation focus. If you value simplicity, work comfortably in a collaborative, fast paced environment, and are excited to both teach and learn, we'd love to talk to you.
- Design, build and operate all facets of our next-generation network solutions, to include production on-prem, cloud, transit and backbone networks in a 24/7 environment.
- Responsible for ensuring network availability, performance and future scalability for the entire Uber platform, spanning both on-premise and Cloud environments.
- Embrace cross-team collaboration. You'll work closely with people across multiple Engineering and Business organizations to develop and implement network-based solutions that support our global growth.
- Apply your intellectual curiosity and research new technologies; figure out their practical applications within our principles and then bring it to life in our production networks.
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What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- Provide operational level 1 and level 2 support, troubleshooting and problem remediation of Uber's production data center networks.
- Provide production on-prem and cloud networking support (AWS and GCP), interconnects, and VPC creation.
- Assist in new production deployments (rack builds/capacity adds).
- Engineers will be required to participate in regular on-call rotations.
- Collaborate with Uber teams especially Network Lifecycle and TPMs on project based work.
- New deployments, upgrades and remediation of Uber networks/data centers.
- Remote deployment support.
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant network architecture and engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong expertise in TCP, IPv4/6, and dynamic routing protocols such as BGP.
- Coding experience in Python or Go
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading large-scale green or brownfield architecture, designs, and deployments for global or national enterprise or Service Providers in backbone or data center network fabrics.
- You are passionate about leveraging software innovations to automate network management, improve network observability, and remediate problems.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go, Java, or Python with 2+ years experience.
- Proven ability to lead operational excellence through best-practice change management, outage mitigation and blameless post-mortem processes.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and/or operating Cloud networking in either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform environments (Direct peering, VPC networking, Security controls).
- Knowledge about distributed systems such as Network/Application load balancers, DNS, VM/container networking.
- Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: AWS, GCP, Backbone network design and architecture, large scale on premise data center networking, network automation and observability, large scale distributed systems.
- You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. You are open-minded to discuss various technical approaches and able to drive consensus across various stakeholders at Uber.
- A relentless desire to build each network better than the last. Treat networking, operational efficiency, and automation as sciences with room for artful breakthroughs.
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.