Mobile & Specialized Infrastructure: Drive the strategy for specialized developer infrastructure, including dedicated mobile platforms supporting iOS and Android build ecosystems (managing extensive bare-metal hardware clusters such as Mac mini build farms, native toolchains, and continuous release pipelines).
CI/CD, Testing & Platform Reliability: Oversee the core backend build, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing suites that form the inner loop of Uber engineers' daily workflows, ensuring fast feedback loops, high system reliability, and rapid deployment velocity.
Engineering Governance, Security & Open Source: Establish robust frameworks for managing third-party open-source dependencies, licensing compliance, and automated architectural/security/legal review tooling across the entire code repository.
Deep Architectural Acumen (“Forest and the Trees”): Balance high-level strategic executive presence with deep technical curiosity and fluency. Deeply understand system bottlenecks, developer ergonomics, and architectural tradeoffs to guide technical decisions alongside senior technical leaders.
Industry Representation & Talent Brand: Champion Uber’s developer experience and technical innovations externally through tech conferences, open-source initiatives, and engineering publications to attract world-class platform and developer-tooling talent.
What You Need
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
A minimum of 15 years of professional software engineering experience building and deploying complex, large-scale systems.
A minimum of 10 years of direct management experience leading software engineering teams, including substantial experience managing managers of managers and executive engineering leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
Developer Tools Industry Expertise: Prior engineering leadership experience within dedicated developer-tooling companies (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, JetBrains, or modern AI dev-tool startups) or leading large-scale internal developer platform organizations (100+ engineers) at hyper-growth tech companies.
Platform & Tooling Background: Deep domain experience in developer tooling, infrastructure, developer experience (DevEx), build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or distributed platform engineering.
AI & Next-Gen SDLC Fluency: Demonstrated thought leadership or practical experience integrating LLMs, code intelligence, and AI-driven automation into the developer toolchain and software development workflows.
Startup Agility & Large-Scale Rigor: A proven background navigating both early-stage startup environments (scrappiness, speed, high-velocity execution) and massive enterprise scale (governance, reliability, cross-functional alignment).
Mobile & CI/CD Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with the unique constraints of building and releasing mobile applications at scale (iOS/Android toolchains, on-premise hardware clusters) alongside distributed backend microservice architectures.
Executive Presence & Influence: Strong industry presence, compelling storytelling skills, and a demonstrated ability to rally multi-thousand-person developer organizations around platform migrations and cultural developer shifts.
