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The mission of the Platform Engineering team is to \"Empower One Uber to innovate by building a world-class foundation that accelerates growth at scale\"\nWe are looking for a Director, Engineering Lead Uber’s end-to-end Observability organization to deliver a modern, AI-forward telemetry and incident-management platform that keeps engineers “never flying blind,” materially improves reliability and rollout safety, and becomes a strategic advantage for how Uber builds and operates software at scale. The successful candidate will have broad software development and managerial experience in a multi-location environment.\nWhat you’ll do\nStrategy & Vision: Own the long-term vision and roadmap for observability at Uber, tied directly to company priorities on reliability, rollout safety, and developer productivity. Regularly communicate strategy, trade-offs, and progress to senior engineering and product leadership. \nAgentic AI Innovation: Pioneer the integration of Agentic techniques into the observability platform to autonomously triage incidents, automate complex root-cause analysis, and orchestrate real-time remediations-transforming Uber’s telemetry from passive monitoring into proactive, self-healing infrastructure at scale. \nPlatform & Product Leadership: Drive architecture and execution for large-scale distributed telemetry systems, including real-time analytics for customer experience observability and deployment safety. Set and enforce standards for instrumentation, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting across thousands of services and internal applications. \nReliability & Incident Management: Partner with Incident Management and Production Engineering to ensure observability is tightly integrated into incident detection, triage, and postmortems. Reduce noise and cognitive load on on-call engineers through better signal quality, correlation, and actionable alerts. \n Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Management: Align with Developer Platform, product orgs, and BizTech on shared goals (e.g., rollout safety, reliability KPIs, developer satisfaction) and ensure observability roadmaps support those goals. \nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field \nA minimum of 10 years proven experience in enterprise software development leadership roles, with a strong track record of success in observability \n7+ years of management experience leading large software engineering teams \nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior leadership experience from a top-scale environment or combination of large company and start-up with ownership of the observability charter \nAI-forward and innovative thinker \nSystems thinker who can balance reliability, cost, and developer experience, and who is comfortable making hard trade-offs with imperfect information \nAbility to create vision and direction for the team in collaboration with numerous engineering stakeholders \nA keen interest in user experience and building the right solution through quick iterations and feedback \nAbility to execute strongly within a large, loosely structured organization, with rapidly changing requirements \nStrong organizational skills to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, without losing sight of the highest priority items\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills and with the ability to drive discussions / roadmaps with other engineering leaders within Uber and negotiate conflicting priorities.\nA track record of attracting strong technical talent and providing mentorship to grow them further \n For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.\nFor Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.\nFor Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.\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. 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