Senior Security Incident Commander

About the role

As a Senior Security Incident Commander, you are accountable for leading Uber’s most critical, complex, and high-impact security incidents end-to-end - from escalation to containment, recovery, and systemic remediation.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Command the highest severity and most complex security incidents across Uber and its subsidiaries, serving as the single accountable leader during active response.
• Participate in an on-call rotation where you are expected to make real-time decisions with incomplete information, balancing speed, risk, and impact.
• Act as the incident authority, not just a facilitator - forming hypotheses, setting strategy, and directing investigative focus.
• Transition seamlessly between executive-level incident leadership and hands-on technical investigation, including log analysis, system interrogation, and root cause validation.
• Serve as the primary interface to senior leadership during critical incidents, translating evolving technical realities into clear risk, impact, and decision frameworks.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with global engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and operations teams to enable fast, coordinated response.
• Conduct rigorous post-incident analysis in the spirit of an NTSB investigation - focused on systemic causes, contributing factors, and concrete prevention.
• Mentor and develop other responders and incident leaders, raising the organization’s ability to handle complex, time-critical security events.
• Lead and materially contribute to initiatives that mature Uber’s incident response program, including:
• High-fidelity incident simulations and technical tabletop exercises
• Threat-informed response planning and scenario development
• 'Left of boom' threat modeling to prevent incidents before they occur
• Improvements to detection, containment, and response automation
• Apt adoption of new investigative techniques and tooling, including AI-assisted workflows

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in security operations, detection, or incident response roles at scale, with demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, large, complex, high-impact incidents.
• Deep familiarity with modern attacker TTPs and how they manifest across logs, systems, networks, endpoints, and applications.
• Strong technical investigation skills - comfortable working directly with logs, telemetry, and raw system data to validate hypotheses and determine root cause.
• Experience briefing executives during active incidents, with the ability to clearly explain tradeoffs, risks, and recommended actions.
• Experience designing or running technical incident simulations (tabletops, purple team exercises, or similar) that stress real-world response capabilities.
• Experience building or leveraging AI-driven tooling to improve incident response posture, applying frontier technology to workflows such as triage, investigation, correlation, or decision support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading other responders through direct command during incidents and longer-term technical mentorship.
• Strong bias for action and continuous improvement - uncomfortable with leaving with a shrug if things aren’t right.
• Experience responding to incidents in highly distributed, cloud-scale environments where blast radius and coordination complexity are significant.
• Broad security domain knowledge (infrastructure, endpoint, product, identity, data) and the ability to reason across them during incidents.
• Ability to script or code (Python, Go, or similar) to automate response tasks, prototype tooling, or close operational gaps.

Pay

• For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.
• For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.
• For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.

Benefits

• You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of compensation, as well as a range of benefits.
• All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan.