Base Salary
$302k - $336k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for Uber’s identity-first Zero Trust stack.
- Design, prototype, ship, review, and debug secure production systems while remaining hands-on with complex technical problems.
- Set architectural standards and technical direction through design reviews and written guidance across the security foundation organization.
- Own availability, failure-mode, blast-radius, incident-response, and safe-enforcement-change design for Tier-0 identity, policy, and certificate infrastructure.
- Extend identity and authorization capabilities to AI agents, including attestation, delegated authorization, token exchange, risk-adaptive controls, and runtime attribution.
- Lead cross-organization migrations from static secrets, long-lived credentials, and implicit network trust to short-lived, attested identity.
- Ensure the identity foundation supports new business lines, acquisitions, cloud estates, SaaS environments, and partner boundaries.
- Partner with infrastructure, AI platform, product engineering, and business teams and represent identity and Zero Trust strategy to executive stakeholders.
- Mentor and sponsor staff-and-above individual contributors and elevate engineering performance across organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep specialization in cybersecurity.
- Proven technical leadership in driving design, influencing architecture, and mentoring senior engineers across organizational boundaries.
- Expertise in one or more of identity and access management, Zero Trust architecture, secure systems design, applied cryptography, authorization and policy systems, or agentic/AI security.
- Hands-on experience owning highly available, Tier-1 distributed systems in the critical path of production traffic, including design, operation, and incident response.
- Strong coding skills in Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
- Experience building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure at large scale.
- Preferred: Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: Experience designing or operating Zero Trust architectures at scale, including SPIFFE/SPIRE or equivalent workload identity, service mesh authentication, centralized policy decision services, device trust, and secretless service-to-service authentication.
- Preferred: Expertise in OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML, SCIM, mutual TLS, and PKI/certificate lifecycle management.
- Preferred: Experience securing AI or agentic systems through agent identity, delegated authorization, guardrails, sandbox isolation, or runtime attribution.
- Preferred: Experience with non-human identity at scale, service accounts, API keys, cloud IAM hardening, and credential lifecycle management across multi-cloud and SaaS estates.
- Preferred: Experience leading large-scale credential or authorization migrations across heterogeneous fleets.
- Preferred: Contributions to open standards or the external security community through specifications, talks, publications, or open source.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan.
- Employees are eligible for various benefits.
- The role may be based in San Francisco, Seattle, or Sunnyvale, with location-specific base salary ranges stated in the posting.
- Eligible employees may participate in Uber’s bonus program and may be offered equity or other compensation.
About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.