Job description
The security organization at Uber is dedicated to enabling safe and secure innovation while protecting the communities we serve both online and in the physical world. Our teams are responsible for protecting both people and their data across intersections of the digital and physical world. The primary objective for Uber Engineering Security team is to enable the technical ambitions of the company while maintaining the highest standards of security and privacy for our customers and partners. As cybersecurity threats evolve, so do we.
About the Role
Core Security Engineering’s mission is to make the Uber production environment secure by default and provide industry leading products and services to all Uber's production services and infrastructure. We are focused on building both security primitives and end users products that help Uber engineers to secure their service, build trust, and advance security to enable our global business.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform Security Engineering Team. We are responsible for providing and managing platform Identity, Secrets, and Encryption key material for all of Uber’s services. You’ll work on critical distributed multi-cloud services at a massive scale built with best security practices at the forefront. You’ll be responsible for long term decisions on leveraging next gen infra to continuously scale and operate such foundational security services.
What You'll Do
Provide technical leadership throughout Uber on secrets, keys, and certificate management
- All stages of software development lifecycle
- Code and design reviews
- Cross-org, cross-team collaboration
- Operational excellence, efficiency and reliability
- Actively involve in team processes such as sprint planning, oncalls, brown bags, etc.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering with strong knowledge of system design and architecture.
- Experience in building highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems for business critical applications
- Experience with agile development and adopting engineering best practices with well defined goals and metrics.
- Experience at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Python, Go, C#).
- Experience with building or integrating security oriented PaaS / SaaS like AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault etc at production systems.
- Domain expertise of the current security landscape and experience leveraging and applying security threat modeling.
Preferred Qualifications
- A strategic mindset, comfortable thinking far ahead of where the team is at now.
- Experience with Open Source Projects and/or active contributors into major open source projects like Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, SPIRE/SPIFFE, Google Tink etc.
At 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.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $207,000 per year - $230,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $207,000 per year - $230,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $207,000 per year - $230,000 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.
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