Uber Director Security Engineering 

United States, West Virginia 

208029791

About the Role

The Director, Security Engineering will be the technical voice in all security engineering projects across the EMEA region. You should be comfortable in uncharted territory as we build unique technologies and grow user trust. We need your skills and enthusiasm to make it happen.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee a team of engineers in our Amsterdam location who support security and privacy initiatives in the areas of platform security, product security, security machine learning and infrastructure security.
• Establish and communicate team vision and goals
• Work with stakeholders to craft product/technology strategy and roadmap for security and privacy, mapping critical business priorities to dependencies, and aligning cross-functional roadmaps
• Lead team to plan and deliver against roadmap, both in quality and quantity, in a sustainable way
• Establish and manage processes for efficient team execution
• Drive engineering excellence by evangelizing and adopting best practices with well defined goals and metrics
• Foster cross-functional, cross-team collaboration by building trust relationships with product management, design, data science, security, legal, policy, communications, as well as many product and engineering teams across Uber
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management and ensure user privacy is not compromised
• Thrive in high-stakes, complex situations.
• Form partnership with leading researchers and industry partners to develop cutting edge security technologies
• Recruit technical talent. Mentor, coach, and develop top notch engineers in a high performing engineering team; should be comfortable doing design and code reviews.
• Build a diverse, inclusive, fair, collaborative, and dynamic team environment
• Be an internal and external evangelist for Uber’s security technology

What You’ll Need

• 15+ years of progressively senior experience in engineering in a large technology enterprise or other large enterprises in a technology heavy industry
• 10+ years of experience in a leadership role, building, mentoring, and managing teams and managing managers.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field

Bonus Points if

• Previous experience with security engineering or software engineering with a focus on data or AI
• Experience building highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant products and platforms in a big data environment to support our unique rate-of-growth
• Experience working cross-functionally with all levels of management, both internally and externally
• Experience communicating and influencing decisions at senior levels
• Visionary ideals for user privacy and can apply them in a business environment.
• Strategic mindset, comfortable thinking far ahead of where the team is at now.
• Creative problem solver, having an excellent understanding of business goals and able to identify and solve high impact, highly complex problems.
• Ability to hire, motivate, develop, and retain top talent, and build a dynamic and high-performing team.
• Experience managing agile development teams.
• Track record in prioritizing and driving multiple work-streams forward simultaneously
• Ability to empower a team while providing them with career paths that align with business goals
• Proven track record of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders
• Principled yet pragmatic, having conviction and being authentic in your approach, but situationally aware enough to adapt when needed.
• Sound business judgment, ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
• Outstanding storyteller with the ability to articulate a clear vision that balances principled decision-making, user empathy, and data analysis

* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .