Sr Staff Security Engineer - Engineer

About the role

About The Role And Team Security at Uber is about enabling safe and secure innovation while protecting a global community that spans the digital and physical worlds. As a Senior Staff Security Engineer (L6), you will lead the architecture and implementation of Uber's next-generation cyber defense platform. This is a high-stakes, high-visibility leadership role where you will be responsible for protecting our global infrastructure, products, and data by building highly available, scalable, and extensible security services. You represent the top tier of our technical talent, serving as both a visionary architect and a hands-on technical leader in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment. You will lead major efforts to design industry-leading solutions for security posture management, threat detection, and incident response, all while incorporating advanced ML and Generative AI frameworks. If you are a humble teacher, an empathic leader, and a world-class engineer motivated by the challenge of staying one step ahead of evolving global threats-this is where you'll make your mark. Ready to Ride? This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Set Technical Direction: Identify high-priority security opportunities and define the long-term architecture for cyber defense capabilities, including cloud security posture management (CSPM), vulnerability management, and threat response.
• Lead Platform Innovation: Design and implement robust, scalable security frameworks leveraging a diverse technology stack (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, IAM) across multi-cloud and hybrid environments (GCP, OCI, AWS, Azure).
• Transform Defense through AI: Lead initiatives to leverage automation and AI/ML, shifting threat defense and incident response from human-driven to software-driven workflows.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Champion best software engineering practices and empower teams to build a culture of quality, ensuring our security systems stand the test of massive scale and high availability.
• Incident Leadership: Participate in high-impact incident response activities, leading investigation, containment, and recovery efforts while performing deep root-cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.
• Collaborate and Influence: Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams in Engineering, Product, Legal, and Compliance to integrate security into every stage of the development lifecycle.
• Mentor and Grow: Serve as a role model and technical mentor for senior and junior engineers, fostering an inclusive environment of continuous learning and engineering excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in security engineering and/or software engineering, with a proven track record of solving strategically important problems.
• Expert ability to lead area-wide security projects through all stages: idea inception, threat modeling, requirements gathering, and global productionization.
• Demonstrated experience defining organization