Engineering Manager: Stateful Platform

About the Role

The Stateful Platform team builds Uber’s infrastructure to deploy and run all database engines, and other stateful systems such as MySQL, Docstore, Redis, ZooKeeper, Kafka, and HDFS for all of Uber worldwide. Our mission is to run all 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.

About the team

We manage close to 100,000 hosts, millions of containers, and exabytes of storage across multiple geographical regions with availability zones in 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 improve 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 comprises a balanced combination of 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 partner teams in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York, and Bangalore.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of proven experience with direct people management, including growing and mentoring engineers at different levels
• 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
• A consistent record of working across a larger organization - not just across teams
• Strong Linux experience, networking protocols, Linux tools, and libraries

What You’ll Do

• Drive the technical alignment with partner teams, in particular on fleet management processes with the Infrastructure Foundations and Metal teams
• Own roadmap execution and delivery of projects with high quality
• Grow, mentor, and develop a team of skilled software engineers
• Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team
• Contribute to the engineering culture and uphold the processes that will shape the team
• Help define the future of Uber Infrastructure's Stateful Platform

Please check this page to learn more about our Denmark Tech Site:

https://pages.beamery.com/uber/page/eng-denmark

Please check out our Engineering Blog to learn about examples of engineering challenges we solve in Denmark:

https://t.uber.com/CPUtrottling

https://t.uber.com/ubuildaarhus

https://t.uber.com/scalingCPUaarhus

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.