Engineering Manager II, Container Platform

Engineering Manager II, Container Platform Department: Engineering Team: Manager Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Uber is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Container Platform Infrastructure group. The Container Platform team’s mission is to build the next generation of Uber’s container orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. At Uber we have a complex infrastructure spanning both on-prem data centers and cloud. It supports a diverse variety of workloads (stateless, batch, streaming, ML/AI, stateful), each different in its characteristics and requirements. What the Candidate Will Do ---- 1. Provide product and technical leadership, setting team direction and goals by identifying technical priorities and opportunities, managing expectations, and considering tradeoffs. 2. Empower delivery by forming actionable plans, allocating responsibilities, and maintaining productivity across engineering teams with well-defined goals and metrics. 3. Manage and grow individual team members, attract and recruit new talent responsible for ever-growing technical challenges 4. Collaborate across many areas of Uber, work with other technical, product and operation leaders across the Globe \-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ---- 1. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field 2. 8+ years of professional Software Development experience building products and platforms 3. 2+ years of experience leading functional areas as a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager. \-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ---- 1. Background in large-scale backend infrastructure 2. 5+ years of experience building large scale infrastructure systems. 3. Strong leadership skills and technical expertise; ability to lead a platform team with deep domain knowledge and solve technical challenges through system design and problem-solving 4. Proven ability to collaborate effectively across different functions and with diverse stakeholders. 5. Demonstrated leadership experience in improving reliability and