Senior Security Engineer

Uber

Seattle, WA Full-time 2/18/2026 $202k - $224k per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience

Approval 99.3%•Total filings 920•New hires 237•

💎 Strong Sponsor

•FY 2025

Job Description

Uber is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to enhance its Application Security team. The role involves designing and deploying advanced security automation tools, including AI-driven vulnerability scanning and intelligent asset indexing, to identify and remediate vulnerabilities across Uber's application ecosystem.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Go, Java, C, or Python (Go preferred).
Experience identifying and remediating common security vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
Solid understanding of service-oriented and distributed system architectures.
Experience designing and implementing REST APIs.
Experience with datastore technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases.
Familiarity with distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or similar).

Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy large-scale automation to discover, analyze, and remediate security vulnerabilities across thousands of services.
Design end-to-end systems and features for application security platforms, including secret discovery, code scanning, and vulnerability remediation.
Identify security-sensitive functionality and coverage gaps across applications and services, and develop automation to close those gaps.
Research novel attack techniques and security weaknesses, and automate their detection using innovative tools and approaches.
Build distributed backend systems that power real-time analytics and data-driven security insights at Uber scale.
Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across Security, Privacy, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Product to integrate security capabilities into Uber's platform.
Provide guidance to application and service owners to remediate identified security issues.
Perform threat modeling, design reviews, and code reviews to assess security risks in new and existing systems.
Mentor junior and new graduate engineers.

Benefits

Employees at Uber are often offered comprehensive health, life, disability, and mental wellness benefits, along with wellbeing stipends, travel medical coverage, and monthly Uber credits for Rides and Eats. Employees also get generous paid parental leave, flexible time off, and family-planning support so they can care for themselves and their families at every stage.

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