Engineering Manager II, Backend | Stateful Platform

Engineering Manager II, Backend |  Stateful Platform

About The Role

The Stateful Platform team builds Uber's infrastructure to deploy and run database engines and other stateful systems, including MySQL, Docstore, Redis, ZooKeeper, Kafka, and HDFS, worldwide. Our mission is to run all of Uber's storage solutions at scale, with high-availability, low cost, and a high level of automation. All changes are automated, such as doing kernel upgrades, handling host failures, or expanding storage clusters.

We manage close to 100,000 hosts, millions of containers and exabytes of storage across multiple geographical regions with availability zones in both Uber's own data centers, AWS and GCP. Databases are dockerized and co-located on hosts with intelligent placement to optimize utilization and failure domain anti-affinity to maximize efficiency and reliability. Services are written in Go with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage. All code changes are peer-reviewed.

We have great opportunities ahead to extend the integrations with the different database engines and to increase fleet-wide efficiency by optimizing scheduling, host lifecycle processes, auto-scaling and resource forecasting. We strive to automate all operations that are currently handled by on-call engineers with the end goal of having a fully self-healing system - without compromising on availability or reliability.

Our team consists of a healthy combination of both junior and senior engineers with a broad range of experiences across the industry. We value ideas over hierarchy, getting things done and having a measurable impact on the business. We work closely with our stakeholder teams in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York and Bangalore.

What You Will Do

• Drive the technical alignment internally and with stakeholder teams
• Be responsible for roadmap execution and delivery of projects with high quality
• Grow, coach, and develop a team of skilled and experienced software engineers
• Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team
• Help define the engineering culture and uphold the processes that will shape the future of the team
• Help define the future of Uber Infrastructure's Stateful Platform

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years experience minimum with direct people management, including growing and mentoring junior and senior engineers
• BS, MS or PhD degree in computer science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in designing and building world-class software

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or similar
• Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes or Mesos
• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems
• Have proven track record working across a larger organization not just across teams
• Strong Linux experience, networking protocols, Linux tools and libraries

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.