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It provides our workforce and trusted partners a full stack identity and access management platform across a multi-cloud and hybrid SaaS environment. Our principal is secure by default with least privilege that enables business efficiency and productivity.\nAbout the Team:\nCore 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.\nWe are responsible for providing and managing systems, services, and libraries to provide access management, and enforcement at scale. The scope spans across multiple verticals like service-to-service authentication/authorization, employee to system auth, customer auth.\nYou’ll work on critical distributed multi-cloud services at a massive scale crafted with the best security practices at the forefront. You’ll be accountable for long term decisions on leveraging next generation infrastructure to continuously scale and operate such foundational security services.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join our cutting-edge technology team. In this role, you will be a thought leader, shaping the company’s cybersecurity architecture and engineering strategies to keep its security posture at the leading edge. The role involves defining the next-generation architecture spanning authorization platform and agent mesh identity - setting the technical direction that the rest of the org will build against. You will optimize multi-tenanted zero-trust identity security models within cloud-native architectures, and lead cross-functional initiatives. You will collaborate with global teams to establish robust security design patterns to ensure compliance with industry best practices, protecting sensitive data. You will be influential to shape Uber engineering security to adopt ‘shift-left’ principal, leading to an overall proactive cybersecurity practice.\n---- What the Candidate Will Do ----\nDesign and implement scalable zero-trust frameworks for applications, ensuring secure access and communication across microservices.\nProvide technical leadership, focusing on delivering impactful solutions to secure Uber and modernizing the company’s security stack, ensuring architecture stays current with evolving technologies and threats.\nProvide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the Authorization platform at Uber.\nDesign and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform and services for Uber’s cyber defense.\nDeliver high-quality code, conduct code reviews.\nBe intentional about leveraging AI/ML to shift-left security.\nSpearhead strategic cybersecurity projects. Conduct Proofs of Concept (POCs) to evaluate and implement emerging security solutions.\nWork closely with leadership to prioritize and manage engineering roadmaps.\nPartner with technology, business and compliance teams to ensure cybersecurity solutions support strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.\nBuild, lead, and develop high-performing security engineering and architecture teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning and innovation.\nAct as a mentor and advocate for team members’ growth, focusing on upskilling talent to address evolving security challenges.\n---- Basic Qualifications ----\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.\n12+ years of experience in software engineering\nExpertise in writing high-quality code to solve strategically important problems that span multiple organizations, including proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, C/C++) and code reviews.\nKnowledge of cybersecurity concepts, tools, and best practices\nDeep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and architecture.\nStrong problem-solving skills and a passion for innovation\nA growth mindset with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.\nExperience leading org-wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages: inception, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and operations.\nProven track record of overseeing incident management processes and directing on-call rotations in alignment with global best practices.\nDemonstrated ability to make sound engineering/business tradeoffs, considering long-term implications for the greater good of Uber.\n---- Preferred Qualifications ----\nExperience building high-performance, scalable distributed systems at a 100M+ user scale.\nExpertise in real-time streaming frameworks (Flink, Spark) and OLAP systems (Apache Pinot, Druid) to reduce system complexity.\nStrong leadership traits: Experience serving as a representative for the organization to the broader internal and external technical community.\nProven ability to get alignment and buy-in for large-scale technology transformations across multiple job functions.\nExperience with AI/ML technologies / frameworks and incorporating them into production systems\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\nFor Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 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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