About the Role

The Search platform currently powers Rider and Driver Maps, Uber Eats, Groceries, Fulfilment, Freight, Customer Obsession and many such products and systems across Uber. We are building a unified platform for all of Uber’s search use-cases. The team is building the platform on OpenSearch. We are already supporting in house search infrastructure built on top of Apache Lucene.

Our mission is to build a fully managed search platform while delivering a delightful user experience through low-code data and control APIs.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with strong technical expertise to define a holistic vision and help build a highly scalable, reliable and secure platform for Uber's core business use-cases.

Come join our team to build search functionality at Uber scale for some of the most exciting areas in the marketplace economy today.

An ideal candidate will be working closely with a highly cross-functional team, including product management, engineering, tech strategy, and leadership to drive our vision and build a strong team. A successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong technical skills, system architecture / design. Having experience on the open source systems and distributed systems is a big plus for this role. The EM2 role will require building a team of software engineers, while directly contributing on the technical side too.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

Provide technical leadership, influence and partner with fellow engineers to architect, design and build infrastructure that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead.

Lead, manage and grow a team of software engineers. Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team, and continuously improve software engineering practices. Own the craftsmanship, reliability, and scalability of your solutions. Encourage innovation, implementation of ground breaking technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization Hire top performing engineering talent and maintaining our dedication to diversity and inclusion

Collaborate with platform, product and security engineering teams, and enable successful use of infrastructure and foundational services, and manage upstream and downstream dependencies

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related field.
2. 10+ years of software engineering industry experience
3. 8+ years of experience as an IC building large scale distributed software systems
4. Outstanding technical skills in backend: Uber managers can lead from the front when the situation calls for it.
5. 1+ years for frontline managing a diverse set of engineers

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

Prior experience with Search or big data systems - OpenSearch, Lucene, Pinot, Druid, Spark, Hive, HUDI, Iceberg, Presto, Flink, HDFS, YARN, etc preferred.

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.