Senior Security Engineer - Application Security

Uber

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $202,000–$202,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago

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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.

Uber currently has 95 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer - Application Security

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Uber is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join its Application Security team in key locations like New York and Seattle. In this role, you will design and deploy next-generation security automation, including AI-driven vulnerability scanning and intelligent asset indexing, to enhance Uber’s application ecosystem. You will build production-grade systems that continuously identify and remediate vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQLi, CSRF, and SSRF across thousands of services. Key responsibilities include developing end-to-end features for secret discovery, code scanning, and vulnerability remediation, collaborating with engineering teams to integrate security capabilities into the platform, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong programming skills in Go, Java, C, or Python, and a solid understanding of service-oriented architectures. Additional expertise in distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, and threat modeling is preferred.

Skills

Python Go Java C REST APIs Kafka Docker CI/CD AWS Azure GCP PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis OWASP Top 10 Service-Oriented Architecture Distributed Systems Threat Modeling Code Reviews Open Source Security Tools Real-Time Data Pipelines

What you'll do

Design and deploy large-scale automation to discover and remediate security vulnerabilities.
Develop end-to-end systems for application security platforms including secret discovery and code scanning.
Identify coverage gaps in security-sensitive functionality and automate their resolution.
Research and automate detection of novel attack techniques and security weaknesses.
Build distributed backend systems for real-time analytics and data-driven insights.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong programming skills in Go, Java, C, or Python
Experience identifying and remediating common security vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
Solid understanding of service-oriented and distributed system architectures
Expertise in designing and implementing REST APIs and datastores
Familiarity with distributed messaging systems like Kafka
Experience integrating open-source security scanners and tools

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