Sr Staff Engineer - Engineer

The Security Engineering team at Uber is focused on making the production and corporate environments secure by default to provide industry-leading solutions for Uber's production services and infrastructure. It provides our workforce and trusted partners a full stack identity and access management platform across a multi-cloud and hybrid SaaS environment. Our principal is secure by default with least privilege that enables business efficiency and productivity.
About the Team:
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 multi-cloud 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.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join our cutting-edge technology team. In this role, you will be a thought leader, shaping the company’s cybersecurity architecture and engineering strategies to keep its security posture at the leading edge. The role involves defining the next-generation architecture spanning authorization platform and agent mesh identity — setting the technical direction that the rest of the org will build against. You will optimize multi-tenanted zero-trust identity security models within cloud-native architectures, and lead cross-functional initiatives. You will collaborate with global teams to establish robust security design patterns to ensure compliance with industry best practices, protecting sensitive data. You will be influential to shape Uber engineering security to adopt ‘shift-left’ principal, leading to an overall proactive cybersecurity practice.
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Design and implement scalable zero-trust frameworks for applications, ensuring secure access and communication across microservices.
Provide technical leadership, focusing on delivering impactful solutions to secure Uber and modernizing the company’s security stack, ensuring architecture stays current with evolving technologies and threats.
Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the Authorization platform at Uber.
Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform and services for Uber’s cyber defense.
Deliver high-quality code, conduct code reviews.