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Uber · 9 hours ago

Staff Network Engineer

Uber is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to join their Global Network Infrastructure team. The role involves designing, building, and operating advanced network solutions while ensuring performance and scalability through automation in a collaborative environment.

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Responsibilities

Design, build and operate all facets of our next-generation network solutions, to include cloud, transit, backbone and on-prem networks in a 24/7 environment that powers Uber's business
Responsible for ensuring network availability, performance and future scalability through automation
Embrace cross-team collaboration. You'll work closely with people across multiple Engineering and Business organizations to develop and implement network-based solutions that support our global growth
Apply your intellectual curiosity and research new technologies; figure out their practical applications within our principles and then bring it to life in our production networks
Create, develop and extend automation frameworks designed to automatically deploy or modify on-prem and cloud networking primitives, auto-mitigate common network failures, and improve operational health
Provide production on-prem and cloud networking support (GCP, OCI), interconnects, and VPC creation
Identify and work with stakeholders to drive new production designs and deployments for POP, backbone, transit or Cloud networking
Participate in a 24/7/365 global on-call rotation
Collaborate with internal and external teams and stakeholders for projects, new functionality, or troubleshooting operational issues

Qualification

Network engineeringCloud networkingNetwork automationPythonGoAWSGCPInterpersonal skillsCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

7+ years of Network engineering and operational experience in production environments with proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go) for network automation and tooling

Preferred

Experience leading large-scale green or brownfield architecture, designs, and deployments for global or national enterprise or Service Providers in backbone or data center network fabrics
You are passionate about leveraging software innovations to automate network management, improve network observability, and remediate problems
Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go or Python with 3+ years experience
Proven ability to lead operational excellence through best-practice change management, outage mitigation and blameless post-mortem processes
4+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and/or operating Cloud networking in either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform environments (Direct peering, VPC networking, Security controls)
Knowledge about distributed systems such as Network/Application load balancers, DNS, VM/container networking
Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: AWS, GCP, Backbone network design and architecture, large scale on premise data center networking, network automation and observability, large scale distributed systems
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

Benefits

You will also be eligible for various benefits.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp.

Company

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

H1B Sponsorship

Uber has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (830)
2024 (796)
2023 (684)
2022 (954)
2021 (750)
2020 (638)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$35.56B
Key Investors
William AckmanPayPalToyota Motor
2025-09-08Post Ipo Debt· $2.25B
2025-05-13Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2025-01-01Post Ipo Equity· $2.3B

Leadership Team

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Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO
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Prashanth Mahendra -Rajah
Chief Financial Officer
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