Uber

Sr Infrastructure Engineer

Uber$180K — $200K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with major Optical Transport Network (OTN) devices (Infinera, Nokia, Ciena, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of optical transport, system design, and operational protocols
  • Experience in on-call roles and escalation for service issues
  • Proficient in managing remote environments and globally distributed teams

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain optical systems critical to Uber's operations
  • Drive efficiency in all lifecycle stages, from design to operational support
  • Develop software-based calibration tools and automation scripts
  • Own entire work processes, including SOPs and production support
  • Collaborate with diverse teams to scale infrastructure and calibration strategies

Benefits

  • Eligible for participation in Uber's bonus program
  • Potential equity awards
  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan participation
  • Eligibility for various employee benefits
Full Job Description
Job Description

What you'll do
  • Design, build, and maintain optical systems that directly support Uber's core business of rides and eats that move in the real world-where performance, safety, and scale cannot be separated.
  • Work through technical debt and shifting priorities to drive efficiency across all lifecycle areas, from initial design and deployment to iteration and operational support.
  • Lead efforts to build software-based calibration tools, automation scripts, and validation pipelines as we move toward production-ready, automated solutions.
  • Own your work end-to-end, from defining SOPs and quality gates to participating in on-call rotations and troubleshooting production incidents when stakes are high.
  • Collaborate across disciplines-perception, systems, and platform teams-to ensure our infrastructure and calibration strategies scale with global fleet growth.


Basic Qualifications
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with major OTN devices, such as Infinera/Nokia, Ciena, or ADVA/Adtran.
  • Knowledge of optical transport, system design, device delivery and operations including troubleshooting and incident management.
  • Participate in on-call schedules and serve as escalation points for service-related issues.
  • Experience with working in a lights-out environment or interfacing with remote hands, vendors and a globally distributed team.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Expertise in provisioning of network device configurations for major OTN vendors and hardware.
  • Solid experience in TCP, IPv4/6, and dynamic routing protocols such as BGP and IS-IS.
  • Experience supporting large-scale green or brownfield architecture, designs, and deployments for global or national enterprise or Service Providers in backbone or data center network fabrics.
  • 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.
  • A relentless desire to build each network better than the last. Treat networking, operational efficiency, and automation as sciences with room for artful breakthroughs.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go or Python.
  • Familiarity with Linux-based environments (e.g. bash/zsh)


Responsibilities

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.

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.

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

Uber Careers

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Size
29,300 employees
Market Cap
$48.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$6.7 billion
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+35.3%
Revenue
$11.1 billion
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