Engineering Manager: Stateful Platform

Uber is a technology company that builds and operates platforms for ride-sharing, food delivery, and other transportation services worldwide.
Aarhus, Denmark
Backend
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Engineering Manager: Stateful Platform

The Stateful Platform team at Uber is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the development of infrastructure for deploying and running database engines and stateful systems. This role involves managing a team that handles close to 100,000 hosts, millions of containers, and exabytes of storage across multiple geographical regions.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for driving technical alignment with partner teams, owning roadmap execution, and delivering high-quality projects. You'll grow and mentor a team of skilled software engineers, contribute to the engineering culture, and help define the future of Uber's Stateful Platform.

The team builds and maintains infrastructure for MySQL, Docstore, Redis, ZooKeeper, Kafka, and HDFS, focusing on high availability, low cost, and automation. They work with dockerized databases, intelligent placement systems, and services written in Go. The role offers opportunities to extend integrations with different database engines and increase fleet-wide efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Managing and mentoring a team of engineers at different levels
  • Recruiting high-quality engineering talent
  • Collaborating with partner teams across global locations
  • Driving automation to create a self-healing system
  • Contributing to the engineering culture and processes

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of professional software development experience, 3+ years of direct people management experience, and a strong background in designing and building world-class software. Experience with cloud platforms, container technologies, and large-scale distributed systems is preferred.

Join Uber in Aarhus, Denmark, and be part of a team that values ideas over hierarchy, getting things done, and having a measurable impact on the business. Help move the world forward by shaping the future of Uber's infrastructure.

Last updated 15 days ago

Responsibilities For Engineering Manager: Stateful Platform

  • 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

Requirements For Engineering Manager: Stateful Platform

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

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