About the Team

　　The Platform Engineering team is a centralized team that provides infrastructure at scale and develops and maintains the underpinning technology stack that powers the rest of Uber. It focuses on areas such as Developer productivity, Production Engineering, Core Infrastructure, and Data Sciences. This team sets the pace of software development by creating a seamless developer experience for our Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. It houses the production engineering/SRE and observability practices that develop highly innovative tools and best practices for reliable and safe deployment of services. This team handles Uber's massive infrastructure efficiently, safely, and for high scale. The Platform Engineering Data Science team provides insights and analytical solutions that are timely, accurate, and actionable to power our platform. Thus, the Platform Engineering team delivers a truly differentiating customer-facing experience across Uber Eats, Rides, and Freight and makes Uber a world-class organization that attracts the best talent in the industry.

　　About the Role

　　A top-notch production engineering experience is essential to Uber's success. Uber has thousands of engineers who deploy and maintain several thousand microservices. In order for Uber to provide the best customer experience, it is essential for all our engineers to build on top of a highly efficient, reliable, observable and secure platform. This will allow product and platform engineers to run high-quality code in production environments without worrying about the innards of the platform. This is only possible if our platform has the right abstraction with thoughtfully crafted interfaces that can run at Uber's scale with the thousands of engineers working on top of it.

　　The Product Management role within the Platform Engineering organization owns Uber's Platform solutions and is supported by dedicated engineering teams, product designers, data scientists and internal stakeholder teams.

　　As a Product Manager for Platform Engineering, you will use your problem-solving skills, quantitative skill set, customer obsession, empathy, and collaborative spirit to innovate and offer an effective industry-leading platform-as-a-service solution. You have a desire to possess the best product skills and continuously improve by doing and learning. This is a highly visible role that works closely with the company's leadership team.

　　What You'll Do

　　Own and drive Uber's platform-as-a service product roadmap, strategy, and execution by partnering closely with Uber's Platform engineering leaders and team.Define how our teams measure success, by developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and OKRs.Partner with your customers namely Uber's engineering team to understand their problems, offer solutions and drive the adoption of those solutions.Bring industry leading best practices and thought leadership for production engineering to Uber.

　　Basic Qualifications

　　8+ years of experience as a product managerM.S. or Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fieldsExperience working on online or real-time data and search technologiesExperience with API designs at scaleExperience working on storage, continuous delivery pipelines, reliability architectures, load testing, experimentation or running infrastructure at public cloud technologies is a plus.Ability and experience in extracting insights from data, and summarizing learnings/takeawaysExperience in and understanding distributed systems and in particular microservices architectures (Eg: Kubernetes, service meshes) is highly desirable.

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Strong storytelling: distill interesting and hard-to-find insights into a compelling, concise data storyAbility to communicate effectively and manage relationships with partners coming from both technical and non-technical backgroundsStrong judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making skillsAbility to define complex business problems and articulate requirements that cross multiple product/project areas and teamsAthlete, who can learn technical skills quickly and be highly effective on several products based on a strong product management background.Balance attention to detail with swift execution

　　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 [email protected].