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 Sr Software Engineer to join our Platform Security 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 generation infrastructure to continuously scale and operate such foundational security services.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

Develop and Maintain Software: Build, enhance, and debug backend services, occasionally contributing to client-side development as needed.

Ensure System Reliability and Support Operations: Set up monitoring tools (alerts, logs, metrics) to track system health, respond to user inquiries, and troubleshoot production issues, including customer outages.

Design and Document Solutions: Write technical design documents for new features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with knowledge of system design and architecture.
• Experience with agile development and adopting engineering best practices
• Experience at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Python, Go, C#).

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Experience with security oriented PaaS / SaaS like AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, Hashi Corp Vault etc.

• Knowledge of the current security landscape and experience leveraging and applying security threat modeling.

• Knowledge of Open Source Projects and/or active contributors into major open source projects like Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, SPIRE/SPIFFE, Google Tink etc.

• For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD**$198,000 per year**

• USD**$220,000 per year**.

• For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD**$198,000 per year**

• USD**$220,000 per year**.

• For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD**$198,000 per year**

• USD**$220,000 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.

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.

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.