Software Engineer II, Core Security Engineering
Uber
San Francisco, California
Posted 3 weeks ago
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
Experience Requirements
Required
4-years full-time Software Engineering work experience
4 years of experience
Required Skills
Technical Skills
GoJavaPythonC/C++
Full Job Description
Software Engineer II, Core Security Engineering
About the Role
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 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 the Candidate Will Do
Maintains and applies relevant knowledge to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber, which could include developing and maintaining large-scale multi-tenant services and/or customized solutions based on existing backend infrastructure; monitoring on-prem or cloud-hosted software and infrastructure operations and detecting outages/issues in network or server environments; identifying, analyzing, and resolving system availability, reliability, and performance issues. Learns and applies Uber standards, best practices, and industry standards to own work. Helps define Uber technical standards for the team.
Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support infrastructure systems, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Salary Information
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 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.
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, ancestry, 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.
About the Role
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 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 the Candidate Will Do
Maintains and applies relevant knowledge to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber, which could include developing and maintaining large-scale multi-tenant services and/or customized solutions based on existing backend infrastructure; monitoring on-prem or cloud-hosted software and infrastructure operations and detecting outages/issues in network or server environments; identifying, analyzing, and resolving system availability, reliability, and performance issues. Learns and applies Uber standards, best practices, and industry standards to own work. Helps define Uber technical standards for the team.
Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support infrastructure systems, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
- 4-years full-time Software Engineering work experience
- Efficient in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, C/C++)
- Experience in large-scale systems, scalability and reliability
- Efficient in distributed system design and architecture
Preferred Qualifications
- Domain expertise in security related systems (Authentication, Authorization, Access, IAM, PKI, identity)
- Experience in participating in on-call rotations for critical T0-T1 services
- Experience in mentoring junior engineers
- Experience in leading medium-large projects
Salary Information
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year.
For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 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.
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, ancestry, 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.
Company Culture
Work Environment: Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity.
How to Apply
$58
/ hour
Uber pays $58 for Software Engineer in San Francisco, California, with most salaries ranging from $39 to $88. Pay can vary based on role, experience, and local cost of living.
Median
$58
Low
$39
High
$88
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