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About Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. is the world’s largest, San Francisco-based mobile technology platform facilitating on-demand ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats), and freight transportation across approximately 70 countries.
The Principal Security Engineer joins the Security Engineering team to lead the development and operations of the identity and trust layer. This role involves defining the multi-year architecture for an identity-first Zero Trust stack, ensuring high availability for Tier-0 infrastructure. You will design, prototype, and ship secure systems while mentoring senior engineers and setting technical standards. Key responsibilities include managing workload identity, service-to-service authentication, PKI, cryptographic trust, and authorization policies. You will specifically address the agentic era by securing AI agents as first-class principals. Required skills include expertise in secure systems design, applied cryptography, and experience with Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust. You must demonstrate proficiency in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and mutual TLS to solve complex trust boundaries across diverse business verticals.
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Median $200125 from 42 postings across 15 companies.
Define and deliver the multi-year architecture and strategy for Uber's identity-first Zero Trust stack.
Design, prototype, and ship secure systems while remaining hands-on in debugging and reviewing production-quality code.
Own the availability, failure-mode design, and blast-radius management for Tier-0 trust infrastructure.
Extend the identity and authorization plane to support AI agents as first-class principals.
Lead cross-organization migrations to retire legacy trust primitives in favor of short-lived, attested identities.
Ensure the identity foundation scales across new business verticals, acquisitions, and cloud estates.
Set technical standards through design reviews and mentor senior engineers across the organization.
What we're looking for
BS Degree in Computer Science or related field.
10+ years of experience in software engineering with deep specialization in cybersecurity.
Proven track record as a technical leader driving design, influencing architecture, and mentoring senior engineers across organizational boundaries.
Expert knowledge in identity and access management, zero trust architecture, secure systems design, applied cryptography, authorization systems, or agentic/AI security.
Hands-on experience owning highly available, Tier-1 distributed systems in the critical path of production traffic.
Strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
Experience building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure at large scale.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
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