Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Security Engineering team. Our 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 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.

What You’ll Do

• Set the technical vision and architecture, influencing roadmaps across multiple teams and partner organizations. Apply knowledge of software design principles and methods, and evaluate the trade-offs of different architectural decisions to help translate requirements into effective design documents.
• Lead and execute with an appropriate sense of urgency to deliver technical and business impact. Plan, organize, and manage your own tasks, resources, and timelines to accomplish work accurately and on time. Define and diagnose problems, and determine an appropriate solution, recommendation, or decision while logically evaluating alternatives and relevant factors.
• Own critical platform components, including frameworks, tooling, orchestration, observability, guardrails, and scalable backend services that enable consistent experiences across channels.
• Drive cross-organizational alignment and execution by identifying gaps, defining solutions, and building consensus to deliver production-ready implementations at scale.
• Solve complex distributed systems and operational challenges under heavy traffic, raising the bar on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with significant experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale, high-availability distributed systems in a production environment.
• Proven Leadership: Ability to lead multi-quarter projects, break down ambiguous technical problems, and drive complex initiatives to successful completion across team boundaries.
• Deep expertise in Backend Infrastructure: Strong mastery of microservices architecture, distributed databases, caching strategies, and asynchronous messaging systems.

Preferred Qualification

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Domain expertise in Security related systems (Authentication, Authorization, Access, IAM, PKI, identity)
• A track record of influencing backend engineering strategy and architecture across different organizational boundaries and functional areas.
• Experience in AI and ML on creating efficiency by automation

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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.