{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ab97e6da0db52e5589164f65","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ab97e6da0db52e5589164f65","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ab97e6da0db52e5589164f65","title":"Sr Infrastructure Engineer","description":"About the role and team\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAt 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.\n\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, 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.\nWork through technical debt and shifting priorities to drive efficiency across all lifecycle areas, from initial design and deployment to iteration and operational support.\nLead efforts to build software-based calibration tools, automation scripts, and validation pipelines as we move toward production-ready, automated solutions.\nOwn 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.\nCollaborate across disciplines-perception, systems, and platform teams-to ensure our infrastructure and calibration strategies scale with global fleet growth.\nBasic Qualifications\n5+ years of hands-on experience with major OTN devices, such as Infinera/Nokia, Ciena, or ADVA/Adtran.\nKnowledge of optical transport, system design, device delivery and operations including troubleshooting and incident management.\nParticipate in on-call schedules and serve as escalation points for service-related issues.\nExperience with working in a lights-out environment or interfacing with remote hands, vendors and a globally distributed team.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExpertise in provisioning of network device configurations for major OTN vendors and hardware.\nSolid experience in TCP, IPv4/6, and dynamic routing protocols such as BGP and IS-IS.\nExperience 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.\nProven ability to lead operational excellence through best-practice change management, outage mitigation and blameless post-mortem processes.\nYou 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.\nA relentless desire to build each network better than the last. Treat networking, operational efficiency, and automation as sciences with room for artful breakthroughs.\nProficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go or Python.\nFamiliarity with Linux-based environments (e.g. bash/zsh)\n\nFor Phoenix, AZ-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $162,000 per year - USD $180,000 per year.\n\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.\n\nFor 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.\n\nReady to Ride?\n\nThis isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.\n\nYou may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.\n\nOffices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.\n\nUber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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. 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