Director, Engineering - Maps

About the Role

Uber's Maps engineering team is looking for a Director to lead a talented and diverse team of engineers. The Maps team builds global-scale GeoSpatial solutions (Location Search, Pickups, Dropoffs, Routing, Navigation, Traffic, etc) that power products across Uber's Rides and Delivery businesses.

What You'll Do

• Build the long term vision and provide technical leadership, while influencing and partnering with your team to architect, design and build consumer focused products that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead
• Strategize and collaborate closely with Product, Data Science and Engineering teams throughout the company to drive and shape the technical direction, product vision and roadmap
• Build a strong eng brand for Maps and be able to attract, mentor and develop the talent in the team
• Build trust and foster a collaborative team culture and help grow the respective leaders on the team
• Have an excellent executive presence to communicate the team's vision/plan effectively and represent the Maps engineering organization and POV in the overall Marketplace group
• Translate the strategic roadmap into a practical execution plan with quarterly OKR's
• Build an influential culture of engineering excellence maintaining the balance and right tradeoff for building products for speed and tech debt
• Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for Product metrics and Engineering metrics

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 years proven experience building software across the stack (mobile, platform, data pipelining and ML) and significant experience working on optimization and distributed systems for consumer-facing products
• Proven experience in designing, building, and managing large-scale realtime systems with high availability to support millions of users and/or high call volume.
• A minimum of 7 years of management experience leading software engineering teams

Bonus Points If

• Advanced degree
• Prior experience in maps, location technologies or search domain
• Experience with UI/X and consumer-facing mobile apps

About the Team

Uber's Engineering team executes on the vision and builds the products for the future of urban mobility: deeply understanding our customers to solve their transportation needs with innovative technology. Engineering leaders at Uber move lightning fast to build, test, learn, and iterate, working in small teams that control their own destiny and own their own critical metrics. Leadership helps the vision become a reality and clears obstacles out of the way. Some of the brightest data scientists, designers, engineers, and marketers in the industry are here to build amazing products on top of leading-edge platforms for data, machine learning, and experimentation.

The products we build are used by millions of riders, drivers, eaters, restaurants, merchants and others to earn money for their families, and get around faster, easier, cheaper, and with less environmental impact.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$284,000 per year - USD$315,500 per year.

For 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA

Job ID: Uber-147951

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-04T00:33:04