Engineering Manager - SRE Uber
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Uber Overview

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

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.

Job Description

About the Role

As an Uber SRE Engineering Manager you will lead a team of SRE colleagues. You will develop plans and set objectives with your team, negotiate engagement details with your development partners, and organize the work of your SRE squad.

You will provide normal management services to your team, including career development, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, developing promotion cases, and other managerial responsibilities.

What You'll Do / What You'll Need / Bonus Points / About the Team

About the Team

SRE is an organization of engineers who work with our production services throughout their entire life cycle, from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment, and sustaining operation.

SRE delivers important system properties: reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability, for the systems that our customers use every day.

SREs work in small high-performance squads led by experienced engineers. These squads collaborate closely with their development partners.

What You'll Do

Your Squad of SREs will be responsible for the list below and you should be familiar with all of the work.

* Measurement, monitoring, and alerting
* Automation of deployment and configuration
* Develop reliability tools and frameworks for use by all engineers
* Work with development partners to shape the architecture, design, and implementations of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability
* Share on-call for Uber's most critical systems and lead incident response and no-blame postmortem analysis and review
* Drive efficiencies in systems and processes: capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.
* We help development teams use infrastructure more effectively,
* We instrument services to provide situational awareness for service owners,
* We automate reliable deployment and rollback machinery,
* We orchestrate incident preparation, incident response, incident review and post-mortem,
* We design and lead deployment and operational processes,
* We are on point for capacity planning and to help teams anticipate and prepare for growth.

What You'll Need

* 5+ Minimum Years of Experience with Reliability Engineering
* 3+ years experience building and managing teams
* Grit, drive and a deep feeling of ownership.
* BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline. Equivalent practical experience is a reasonable substitute.
* Good programming skills in one of C++/Java, Javascript, Python or Go, and an ability to pick up new ones.
* Experience in the Linux environment and a good understanding of its fundamentals and internals: filesystems and modern memory management, threads and processes, the user/kernel-space divide, etc.
* A good understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring and storage systems.
* Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.