Staff Security Engineer - Detection & Response (AI-Driven Threat Hunting & Incident Response)
UberBase Salary
$232k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build autonomous security agents that investigate, triage, contain, and remediate incidents end-to-end.
- Design and lead proactive threat-hunting campaigns across cloud, host, network, and application telemetry.
- Build investigation, forensics, data-pipeline, and automated response-playbook tooling at scale.
- Convert threat-hunting findings and incident learnings into higher-fidelity detection signals.
- Set technical direction, identify priorities, manage expectations, and evaluate engineering tradeoffs.
- Champion software engineering quality and operational excellence while mentoring engineers.
- Collaborate with IT, product, detection engineering, and security teams to strengthen response readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of industry experience in software development or a security engineering environment.
- Proficiency in Golang, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and high-availability, high-performance system design.
- Hands-on experience with incident response, threat hunting, and investigation.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience leading incident response, threat hunting, digital forensics, and AI-driven response tooling.
- Preferred: experience incorporating GenAI agents into production security services for investigation, triage, or automated response.
- Preferred: knowledge of EDR solutions such as CrowdStrike and SentinelOne, SIEM platforms such as Splunk and Chronicle, and frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001.
Benefits
- Base salary is $232,000-$258,000 per year for listed New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Sunnyvale locations.
- Eligible for Uber’s bonus program and may receive equity and other compensation.
- Full-time employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan and various benefits.
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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.