Senior Staff Security Engineer

Uber

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Hybrid
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Seattle, WASunnyvale, CA
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3 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Security Engineer

As a Sr Staff Security Engineer, you will join the team responsible for defining and building security platforms, developer tooling, and AI-powered automation to protect the software ecosystem. You will write production-quality code in Go, Java, Python, or C++ to secure the software supply chain, including source code, dependencies, and build infrastructure. Key responsibilities include implementing cryptographic verification, managing SBOMs, and building automated penetration testing and vulnerability discovery systems. You will also develop security for AI applications, assessing LLM integrations and autonomous agents for prompt injection and data exposure. By integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA into CI/CD pipelines, you will turn threat models into engineering controls, establishing secure defaults and scalable infrastructure to eliminate systemic weaknesses across distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

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What you'll do

  • Build software supply chain protections including source code integrity, artifact signing, and provenance verification.
  • Engineer systems to inventory open-source components, manage SBOMs, and automate dependency remediation.
  • Develop scalable application security platforms integrating SAST, DAST, and AI-powered analysis into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Translate threat models into engineering controls, secure defaults, and reusable libraries across cloud and AI workflows.
  • Build continuous offensive security capabilities by developing automated penetration testing and exploit validation systems.
  • Create AI-powered security tools and perform adversarial testing on LLM integrations and autonomous agents.
  • Write production-quality code to operate reliable distributed services and define architectural standards.
  • Mentor senior engineers and lead design reviews to embed security into existing developer workflows.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, or related technical fields.
  • Advanced proficiency in Go, Java, Python, C++, or a comparable language.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems, developer platforms, security services, or infrastructure.
  • Expert-level depth in application security, software supply chain security, or DevSecOps.
  • Expert-level depth in penetration testing, vulnerability research, exploit development, or adversarial testing.
  • Strong fundamentals in network, cloud, and infrastructure security, including Kubernetes and microservices.
  • Experience building with LLMs, frontier models, or autonomous agents for security discovery and remediation (preferred).

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