About the job
Uber's Core Security Engineering organization creates security infrastructure at scale for Uber employees, external applications, and internal services. The team manages critical services for authentication, access management and authorization. The team is seeking to hire a senior engineer who will directly impact Uber security posture by defining and executing the technical roadmap for the unified authorization platform. The role is multi-dimensional requiring interactions across organizational boundaries and balancing multiple projects spanning identity for human and workload actors, personnel and service authorization across existing employees, future acquisitions and partner organizations.
What You'll Do
• Design end-to-end features and systems to secure infrastructure services and web applications • Write code, test and maintain production services for high availability, reliability and performance
Create and maintain engineering documentation to support stakeholders and runbooks for operational excellence• Collaborate and consult with multiple engineering teams and other functional stakeholders from Legal, Privacy, Security, Compliance, Risk and IT for integration into our platform• Participate in team exercises to plan, prioritize and deliver impactful projects
Ensure that identified security issues are prioritized and addressed in an appropriate time frame.
Mentor junior team members
Basic Qualifications
• An engineering-focused undergraduate degree or equivalent industry experience• 3+ years of software engineering experience• Experience building highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant products and platforms • Experience in software development using any of Go/Java/C++• Experience in API design, and familiarity with REST and gRPC• Excellent documentation, communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with building authentication and role and attribute based authorization capabilities utilizing technologies like OAuth 2.0, SSO, OIDC, SAML, XACML• Experienced in design and implementation of large-scale services
Familiarity in any of the following areas Security, Privacy, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Risk• You are a fast and passionate learner and use feedback in order to consistently improve
Demonstrated experience collaborating with other engineers and non-tech stakeholders, both to meet short term goals and to create long-term partnerships
At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 10,000 cities around the world.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
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