Sr Network Engineer

About The Role The Uber Global Network Infrastructure team is looking for someone with a passion in developing intelligent network infrastructures and embedding adaptive AI-driven decision-making while operating these cloud and on-prem networks. This role will combine a strong background in on-prem and cloud networking engineering and operations - and their many challenges and triumphs - and take that understanding and expertise in creating a resilient, high-performance network.

If you value simplicity, work comfortably in a collaborative, fast paced environment, and are excited to both teach and learn, we'd love to talk to you.

• Design, build and operate all facets of our next-generation network solutions, to include cloud, transit, backbone and on-prem networks in a 24/7 environment that powers Uber's business.
• Responsible for ensuring network availability, performance and future scalability through automation.
• Embrace cross-team collaboration. You'll work closely with people across multiple Engineering and Business organizations to develop and implement network-based solutions that support our global growth.
• Apply your intellectual curiosity and research new technologies; figure out their practical applications within our principles and then bring it to life in our production networks.

What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Identify and work with stakeholders to drive new production designs and deployments for POP, backbone, transit or Cloud networking.
• Provide production on-prem and cloud networking support (GCP, OCI), interconnects, and VPC creation.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams and stakeholders for projects, new functionality, or troubleshooting operational issues.
• Participate in a 24/7/365 global on-call rotation.

Basic Qualifications ---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 5+ years of Network engineering and operational experience in production environments with proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go) for network automation and tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale green or brownfield architecture, designs, and deployments for global or national enterprise or Service Providers in backbone or data center network fabrics.
• Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: AWS, OCI, GCP, Backbone network design and architecture, large scale on premise data center networking, network automation and observability, Large scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying and/or operating Cloud networking in either AWS, OCI or GCP environments (Direct peering, VPC networking, Security controls).
• Proven ability to lead operational excellence through best-practice change management, outage mitigation and blameless post-mortem processes.
• You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. You are open-minded to discuss various technical approaches and able to drive consensus across various stakeholders at Uber.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits., For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.