Senior Engineering Manager - Delivery Search and Discovery Platform

About the Role

The Delivery Discovery Platform org at Uber directly impacts our ability to surface the right products to customers at the right time, while enabling our merchants to enable a broad and discoverable catalog. Delivery includes our Uber Eats, Grocery, and Retail products, where we focus on getting goods from a merchant to a customer.

This org owns serving and indexing within our search and discovery experience, supporting multiple data retrieval methods from Lucene based search to exact-match queries and more. We focus on inventing new and exciting ways to help customers find the products they want within our ever growing catalog which requires understanding the customer needs and building a highly performant backend to support these use cases.

Come join our team and help Uber’s Delivery experience scale into the future as we continue to grow exponentially with a global footprint, a large and increasing catalog, and continued user adoption in gross bookings! By leading a group of Uber's world-class engineers and managers, you will be empowered to push the envelope in scalability, distributed systems, reliability, and more.

---- What You Will Do ----

• Lead multiple globally dispersed teams of engineers and managers
• Develop a culture of innovation and quality to solve for complex problems at low cost
• Partner with internal customers on product and system requirements to build the right solutions with minimal overhead
• Represent your space as a subject matter expert to leadership and shakeholders
• Mentor and develop your team and others across Uber

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology etc.)
• 7+ years experience as a software engineer and 3+ years full time management experience
• Experience working with multi-functional, globally distributed teams to coordinate work and deliver solutions that span multiple teams
• Great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a track record of successful execution
• Hands on expertise in career development, mentorship, performance expectations, and conflict resolution

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• Experience with Lucene based search technologies is highly desired (eg, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, or any custom search infrastructure)
• Experience Managing a globally distributed team, with directs in different countries and timezones
• Elevated focus on optimizing backend distributed systems at large scale

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$218,000 per year - CAD$242,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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.