Engineering Manager II - Network Engineering

Uber Uber · Consumer · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Engineering

Engineering Manager II for Network Engineering at Uber in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The role involves managing and building a team focused on network libraries for remote process communication (RPC), network resilience features, and performance/cost efficiency improvements across multiple languages (Go, Java, JavaScript, Python). The manager will partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive critical initiatives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and continuously build an innovation and engineering-oriented team that builds business-critical network libraries and ecosystems with multiple languages.
  2. Lead your team in designing, building, and operating Uber’s network libraries, working with other networking and general infrastructure teams in the US.
  3. Connect with product teams to clarify the customers’ demands and features provided by your systems.
  4. Communicate with multiple stakeholders for coordination, alignment, and joint execution.
  5. Create a diverse and inclusive culture for your team.

Skills

Required

  • managing experience
  • network infrastructure
  • platform
  • RPC
  • communication skills
  • collaboration skills
  • result-driven execution leadership
  • value-oriented execution leadership

Nice to have

  • service mesh
  • edge network stacks
  • mobile network stacks
  • large-scale distributed systems
  • production environments
  • research background
  • innovative systems
  • innovative products
  • designing based on metrics
  • public cloud
  • on-prem hardware/data centers
  • computing
  • storage
  • networking
  • containers/orchestration
  • observability
  • big data
  • IT systems

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of managing experience on 15+ people teams
  • Experience in network infrastructure and platform
  • Deep understanding of service mesh, RPC, edge and/or mobile network stacks
  • Experiences in deploying and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments