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Software Engineer I, Authorization Platform

Backend, Engineering
Sunnyvale, California |
San Francisco, California |
Seattle, Washington

About the Role

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.

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

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 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.

You’ll work on critical distributed systems and micro services at a massive scale crafted with the best security practices at the forefront. You’ll be helping us to make security by default in Uber’s infrastructure.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

  1. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
  2. Good problem solving skills
  3. Good understanding of micro service architecture and distributed systems
  4. Efficient in coding in at least one of the following languages language (GoLang, Java, Pyton, C/C++ etc.)

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

  1. Working experience in distributed systems
  2. Working experience in Security domain (Authentication, Authorization, Auth tokens, PKI, cryptography)

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.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$150,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$150,000 per year - USD$158,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$150,000 per year - USD$158,000 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.


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