Uber Sr Software Engineer - Enterprise Security 

United States, West Virginia 

685205657

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with extensive technical security experience to join our Enterprise Security team. In this role, you will be tasked with developing and executing on various cybersecurity initiatives at scale, across the fleet of systems technology of our enterprise and the infrastructure that powers Uber itself. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to raise the operational safety, quality, and security bar across multiple domains and sub-teams. This is a unique opportunity to work across disparate Platform and Security engineering teams, to make a real impact on Uber’s security posture, these include:

• Developing, scaling, and managing security infrastructure to secure and maintain our production security tooling, including full lifecycle ownership of our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents, endpoint Binary Authorization capabilities, and Device Attestation services.
• Driving the roadmap for owned services, its security features, and engineering enhancements, balancing security risk trade-offs with operational efficiency and a keen eye towards safe deployment in order to ensure optimal protection of our production systems' preventive and defense capabilities.
• Innovating via modern tools and techniques, leveraging AI/ML-driven approaches to enhance observability, behavioral analysis, automation, and improving Uber’s overall security resilience.

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 3-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 2-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)

• Note the 2-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Required:

• Experience developing, deploying, and configuring security services and tools, including API development, gRPCs, authentication, Infrastructure as Code, and Distributed Messaging (Kafka).
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices, threat modeling, and common security vulnerabilities (OWASP, CVEs, exploit mitigation, supply chain security).
• Several years of hands-on experience in modern operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux), including internals, kernel engineering, debugging, and security hardening.

Preferred:

• Extensive experience (7+ years) designing and implementing distributed, high-performance, and fault-tolerant enterprise backend systems that scale efficiently.
• Strong programmatic experience with modern security tools in Threat Detection & Response (TDR), Endpoint Security, or equivalent open-source security solutions—leveraging automation and telemetry for security analytics.
• Passionate about building high-quality, scalable, and developer-friendly security tooling that optimizes for automation, resilience, deployment safety and efficiency at scale.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.

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 .