Staff Software Engineer - Authentication and Security Observability

- Solve messy, high-impact problems at the intersection of security and infrastructure, often starting without a clear playbook or predefined solution.
- Champion engineering best practices like code health, testing, and design clarity, ensuring the platform remains reliable and observable even as we scale rapidly.
- Own your work end-to-end, from the initial architectural design doc to debugging production issues when the stakes for company-wide security are high.
- Turn data into decisions by collaborating across Security, IT, and Ops to identify high-value use cases like adaptive auth policies and automated threat detection.
- Navigate ambiguity and complexity, working through technical debt and shifting priorities while keeping long-term security impact in mind.
- Lead through influence, driving technical direction, conducting design reviews, and mentoring senior engineers through hands-on collaboration rather than just oversight.

Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience building platform services (APIs, data pipelines, or shared infrastructure) in production distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Go or Java (our primary stack) with a track record of writing high-quality, reliable, and testable code.
- Experience owning complex systems end-to-end, including architecture, rollout, and long-term operational health in high-uptime environments.
- Experience building data platforms or graph-based systems that serve multiple internal or external consumers.

Preferred Qualifications

- Background in security engineering, particularly in identity, authentication, or security data/signals platforms.
- Experience modeling risk, such as fraud signals, threat scoring, or compliance posture systems.
- Systems thinking and adaptability, with a proven ability to align stakeholders across organizational boundaries to drive a technical vision.
- Technical leadership experience, including mentoring senior engineers and setting strategic direction for a team or organization.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

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Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote

Job ID: Uber-155303

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-29T00:12:36