Senior Engineering Manager, Networking

Senior Engineering Manager, Networking

Uber

Amsterdam, Netherlands

As a Network Engineering manager, you will have the opportunity to build a team and lead several essential charters that build a reliable and efficient hybrid-cloud network infrastructure and software network platform for all of Uber.

The focus areas includes

• The design, build, and operation of Uber’s global production network infrastructure responsible for billions of transactions every year;
• The reliability and risk automatic capacity management of Uber’s global, production network infrastructure;
• The systems and tools that ensure Uber's global and heterogeneous network infrastructure with the highest reliability, safety, and performance to serve one of the biggest online real-time processing platforms as Uber.

What you will do

• Lead an innovation and engineering-oriented organization that builds networks from scratch. To be successful you will need to create and strengthen a diverse and inclusive culture for your teams;
• Drive longer term technical strategy across various backbones, cloud networking, and the critical observability, alerting, capacity planning and sequencing required to support these systems;
• Communicate and collaborate with teams within and outside Uber. Understand and distill your stakeholders needs while guiding your various teams to prioritize and deliver the features and performance required;
• Ensure the processes and tooling for operational excellent and network security is present throughout the design and implementation of the networks.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience directing and collaborating on high visibility initiatives across geo-distributed team environments;
• 4+ years of proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and various focuses, including Engineering Managers and Technical Leads;
• Experience in team building, organization design, project management, and delivery;
• Experience having designed and operated large-scale distributed networks with fault tolerance, scalability, and performance optimizations. You have a broad and varied understanding of network protocols, network design, and network operations and how to effectively apply the principles to create and operate production/revenue-generating environments to ensure technical advantages for the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong emphasis on ownership & empowerment of your teams with a proven track record of team development and individual mentorship;
• Acts as escalation point during incidents and a diffuser of pressure, while also able to balance a high level decision-maker for prioritization and trade-offs;
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment and helping bring clarity and structure for your teams;
• A bonus if you are a domain expert in the field of public cloud, on-prem data centers, or IT systems.