Sr Infrastructure Engineer

About the role and team 

The Uber Platform Engineering organization builds and manages the compute, storage and network infrastructure that supports Uber's workloads globally. Within Platform Engineering, the Global Network Infrastructure team is looking for an optical network transport engineer who will help deliver our next-generation network solutions that increase the efficiency, reliability, performance and agility of Uber’s global platform.

 

The team is looking for someone with a passion for building optical networking solutions that extend across different networking environments (on-prem data centers, peering points, backbone, cloud providers) and working on the most demanding, critical elements of a network supporting the needs of people across the globe. If you work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to learn, we'd like to talk to you.

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and Eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.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 a curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward together.

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)

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.