CrawlJobs Logo
Uber Logo Uber · IT - Software Development

Sr. Staff Security Engineer

United States, Sunnyvale 267000.00 - 297000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 29, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

Our mission is to protect, defend, and secure Uber’s products, infrastructure and data by building highly available, scalable and extensible security solutions and services. We are focused on proactively identifying and remediating security risks as well as swiftly detecting and mitigating security incidents. In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, we continuously adapt and evolve our defenses in order to always stay one step ahead of potential threats. We are seeking a talented and experienced Sr. Staff Security Engineer to join our Cyber Defense team and lead the development of the next generation security platform. This platform will be instrumental in enhancing our cyber defense capabilities across security posture management, threat detection, incident response, and more.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead the technical direction and architecture of our cyber security defense capabilities, including areas such as enterprise security posture management, threat detection and response, and vulnerability management
  • Design and implement robust and scalable security solutions leveraging a diverse range of technologies (e.g., SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud security platforms, IAM)
  • Lead incident response efforts, including investigation, containment, and recovery activities. Perform post-incident analysis and recommend improvements to prevent future occurrences
  • Proactively research and evaluate emerging security threats, technologies, and trends, and provide recommendations for their adoption to enhance our security posture
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, IT, Legal, and Compliance, to integrate security considerations into the development lifecycle and business processes
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior security engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team
  • Contribute to the development and automation of security tools and processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Communicate complex security concepts and risks effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Participate in security audits and compliance initiatives, providing technical expertise and ensuring adherence to security standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or related field
  • 10+ years full-time work experience in security engineering, with a strong focus on security defense and incident response
  • Deep technical expertise in multiple security domains, such as network security, endpoint security, cloud security (GCP, OCI, Azure, AWS), and identity and access management
  • Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, Golang) are highly desirable
  • Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing complex security solutions at an enterprise level
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex security issues
  • A proactive and results-oriented mindset with a passion for staying ahead of the evolving threat landscape
  • Experience leading technical security projects and mentoring other engineers
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to diverse audiences

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or related field
  • Proficiency in security tools and technologies, including SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Chronicle), EDR solutions (e.g., CrowdStrike, SentinelOne), vulnerability scanners (e.g., Qualys, Nessus), and penetration testing tools
  • Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
  • Familiarity with the development of production services on public cloud providers (GCP, OCI, Azure or AWS)
  • Experience with AI technologies and frameworks and incorporating them into production systems
  • Experience in leading complex projects across multiple engineering organizations

What we offer

  • eligibility to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • may be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • eligible for various benefits
Uber - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Sr. Staff Security Engineer

8 matching positions

Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Web Security)

The Web Security Research team is responsible for delivering high quality AI pow...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
141000.00 - 228075.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Creative thinker and team player with a passion for data-driven security research, and building high quality, complex systems as a part of an incredible research team
  • Strong Web Security background and expertise in detecting security threats over the Internet, such as, phishing, fraud, botnet, spam
  • Hands-on experience in applying Machine Learning within the domain of Web Security and building detection models
  • Experience with Tensorflow, PyTorch, or Vertex AI
  • Strong engineering skills and ability to fastly learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies
  • Strong programming skills in Python and Shell scripting
  • Must have MS/PhD or 2+ years of relevant industry experience or equivalent military experience required
  • Strong research, communication and presentational skills
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Track and research emerging online threats and innovate new AI-powered automated ways to identify malicious indicators used by malicious websites and URLs
  • Leverage data-driven techniques and frontier technologies in ML and AI to build novel detection models for malicious URL detection and blocking
  • Design, develop, test, threat prevention and detection systems to protect enterprise customers around the globe
  • Convert research results and discoveries into real-impact innovative products
  • Implement and maintain complex software pipelines and data infrastructures with challenging requirements on high quality and performance
  • Work across teams to deliver production-impact projects
What we offer
What we offer
  • restricted stock units
  • bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr Staff / Principal Site Reliability Engineer- Network & Security Operations

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ ...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
154000.00 - 249500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience in IAC and infra automation tools, using Terraform & Ansible, CI/CD tools
  • Expert knowledge on cloud orchestration via GKE / EKS, etc, preferably on GCP
  • Experienced in designing and implementing Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans
  • Expert knowledge of firewall technologies (PANW preferred), including VPNs and routing
  • Advanced knowledge of shell scripting and programming languages such a PERL, Ruby, PHP, or Python
  • Advanced knowledge of DNS and DHCP, and Microsoft AD infrastructure
  • Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
  • Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write network and security documentation, policies, and guidelines
  • Ability to work nights and weekends and provide 24/7 on-call support
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, implement and provide support for IT infrastructure compute components
  • Install, support and maintain software infrastructure according to best practices, including routers, Load balancers, switches, wifi controllers, and firewalls via terraform/ansible automation
  • Perform network security design and integration
  • Diagnose problems and solve issues, often under time constraints
  • Implement the necessary controls and procedures to protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction
  • Ensure system uptime and backup for all IT infrastructure
  • Provide security incident triage and response, including working with firewall and device logs, investigating security events, protecting forensic value of data and establishing monitoring and incident reporting and response procedures
  • Work closely with engineering to help report issues and manage project deliverables and provide status and progress reports
  • Provide on-call support for Incident Management
What we offer
What we offer
  • restricted stock units
  • bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr Staff ML Engineer - Production & MLOps Focus - GenAI Security Platform

Join our team building a cutting-edge multi-tenanted GenAI Security Platform tha...
Location
Location
India , Bengaluru
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 4+ years of ML engineering experience with hands-on LLM/NLP work
  • Practical experience building LLM-based applications (agents, multi-turn systems, evaluators)
  • Understanding of model fine-tuning, embedding optimization, and prompt engineering
  • Experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI)
  • Knowledge of LLM orchestration frameworks ( LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI, custom solutions)
  • Familiarity with model architectures and when to fine-tune vs prompt engineer
  • Strong experience deploying ML models to production at scale
  • Experience with Model serving frameworks (vLLM preferred
  • TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or similar a plus)
  • Kubernetes and Docker proficiency for ML workload orchestration
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Build and deploy LLM-based agents and multi-step evaluation workflows
  • Fine-tune models, optimize embeddings, and manage model weights and artifacts
  • Deploy and scale ML services on Kubernetes with proper monitoring and resource management
  • Implement experiment tracking, model versioning, and deployment automation
  • Develop observability dashboards for ML metrics, costs, latency, and quality
  • Optimize LLM API usage through caching, batching, and intelligent routing strategies
  • Manage vector database infrastructure and semantic search systems
  • Create CI/CD pipelines for ML artifacts and automated testing frameworks
  • Collaborate with ML researchers to productionize prototypes and scale experiments
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr. Staff Engineer, Operations Engineer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless ...
Location
Location
United States , Seattle; Palo Alto; Chevy Chase
Salary
Salary:
130000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
geico.com Logo
Geico
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Infrastructure technologies knowledge in a hybrid cloud environment such including Containerization, VMs, CI/CD pipeline, IaC
  • Extensive experience in engineering and solution delivery in a dynamic service provider environment
  • Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale
  • Working knowledge of security services and their impact on production systems including runtime protection services, detective and protective agents and/or daemon sets, vulnerability and application scanning, etc.
  • Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows
  • Experience communicating and presentating to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders
  • Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills
  • Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills
  • Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Monitor and track signals of security gaps, initiative delays, compliance risks due to system issues, and drive resolution
  • Create visuals on current state of the union related to security engineering
  • Help to develop standards on reporting tool effectiveness, maturity, resilience and other factors in determining risks as they come up
  • Help drive automation of routine tasks to drive growth in security protection and detection technologies
  • Provide expert guidance, demonstrations and lead discussions on security best practices to stakeholders and leadership
  • Works in lockstep with our CSIRT, GRC, Tech and partner teams to ensure protection coverages, proper detection event notifications, documentation and standards we can all use
  • Organize, store and manage operational best practices documentation for security solutions to protect our platforms including endpoint, cloud, collaboration, identity and network
  • Partner with the project sponsors, delivery teams, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget by coordinating project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams
  • Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation
  • Identify and raise appropriate security risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
What we offer
What we offer
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation
  • a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
  • performance and recognition-based incentives
  • and tuition assistance
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff / Sr Staff DevSecOps Engineer

SciTec is a dynamic small business, with the mission to deliver advanced sensor ...
Location
Location
United States , Boulder
Salary
Salary:
96000.00 - 141000.00 USD / Year
scitec.com Logo
SciTec
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security clearance
  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline
  • At least 2 year of professional experience with: Python3
  • CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins)
  • Git version control
  • Container orchestration with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Kustomize, or Helm
  • Demonstrated attention to detail
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, maintain, and improve CI pipelines (GitLab CI) for secure software builds and deployments
  • Orchestrate automated deployments across development, test, and production environments using Kubernetes and Helm
  • Integrate CI pipelines with tools for artifact management, testing, code quality, and security scanning
  • Monitor and troubleshoot CI/CD pipeline performance and deployment issues
  • Manage software release processes including version promotion, branching, integration, and validation
  • Maintain and implement Helm charts for application deployments
  • Perform deployment validation and issue resolution in Kubernetes-based environments
  • Ensure adherence to cybersecurity protocols and secure coding practices
  • Support software vulnerability scanning (Static & Dynamic Analysis Tools) and remediation processes
  • Perform other DevSecOps-related duties as assigned
What we offer
What we offer
  • 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match
  • 100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options
  • 80% company paid Dental insurance
  • 100% company paid Vision insurance
  • 100% company paid Life insurance
  • 100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance
  • 100% company paid Hospital Indemnity insurance
  • Voluntary Accident and Critical Illness insurance
  • Short-term Disability insurance
  • Annual Profit-Sharing Plan
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Unix - Senior Cloud - Digital Engineering Sr. Staff Engineer

Location
Location
India , Noida
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
nttdata.com Logo
NTT DATA
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Should have a minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience as a Linux/Unix System Administrator. Should have expertise on at least 2 flavors of Unix. Linux is a must!
  • Should have a deep level of understanding of Linux OS & should be able to handle day to day admin tasks.
  • Should be well versed shell scripting.
  • Expert in Unix-Linux, AWS Cloud Administration, OS/server administration, patching, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • Proficient in operating and troubleshooting AWS services like EC2, networking, RDS, backups, storage (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier), and security (Well-Architected framework).
  • Possesses a strong understanding of networking concepts for configuring secure VPCs, subnets, landing zones, ACLs, and security groups.
  • Experience in end-to-end cloud migrations, including strategy, assessment, design, architecture, and execution on AWS.
  • Skilled in identifying and migrating suitable applications and workloads, gathering migration requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders.
  • Good knowledge of various AWS services like Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, EC2, EFS, EKS, Step Functions, ELB, ACM, Directory Services, and networking.
  • Hands-on expertise in designing, architecting, deploying, and supporting hybrid cloud environments.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Perform installation, customization and maintenance of the UNIX-LINUX Server operating system and system software products in support of business processing requirements for both On-premise and Cloud environment
  • Evaluate and integrate new operating system versions, drivers and hardware.
  • Provides in-depth diagnosis for operating systems software/hardware failures and develops solutions.
  • Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels in standalone and multi-tiered environments.
  • Conducts system analysis, configuration management and develops improvements for system software performance, availability and reliability.
  • Implements appropriate levels of system security. Maintain security patching and remediating vulnerabilities, propose solutions for the same.
  • Perform incident resolution, problem determination and root cause analysis in accordance with service level. Knowledge of ITIL.
  • Recommend and implement modifications to the server environment, Innovation, Ideas to improve
  • Preparation of Standard Documents and periodically review them for modifications
  • Identifies opportunities for process and procedure enhancements to drive efficiency and customer service levels.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr Staff Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS - Runtime BackEnd)

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team, yo...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
126000.00 - 204500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or a PhD
  • Expertise in building scalable distributed systems with excellent Python or Golang programming skills
  • Proven experience with modern backend frameworks, relational databases (SQL), and cloud platforms, specifically GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with senior and junior engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Experience with container platforms like Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab pipeline, ArgoCD), observability and monitoring solution like Grafana and Prometheus
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings in a timely fashion
  • Analyze and solve complex problems by evaluating requirements and applying advanced engineering techniques to achieve high-quality results
  • Proactively identify problems and opportunities, proposing and developing simple, attainable solutions to enhance the team's development process and product quality
  • Evangelize and implement engineering best practices, including test-driven development, spec driven development within the team
  • Lead the architectural design and implementation of new features, ensuring the scalability, performance, and maintainability of the backend codebase
  • Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the team
What we offer
What we offer
  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Sr Staff Engineer Software, Fullstack (Prisma AIRS) - NetSec

Join our team building a cutting-edge multi-tenanted GenAI Security Platform tha...
Location
Location
India , Bengaluru
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Proven experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strict data isolation
  • Strong knowledge of API design, RESTful principles, and OpenAPI specifications
  • Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, or Svelte) with TypeScript
  • Experience building data-intensive dashboards with complex visualisations and real-time data
  • Strong CSS/styling skills and responsive design principles
  • Demonstrated experience working with production AI/ML systems at scale
  • Practical experience integrating LLM APIs and managing inference at scale
  • Understanding of LLM operational challenges: rate limiting, cost optimisation, latency management, fallback strategies
  • Familiarity with AI agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, MCP, or similar)
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering, semantic search, and vector databases
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design and implement high-performance REST APIs with enterprise-grade multi-tenant isolation and strict security boundaries
  • Work on distributed systems architecture handling high-throughput workloads with mission-critical uptime requirements
  • Build responsive dashboards and administrative interfaces for platform management, data visualisation, and system configuration
  • Integrate multiple LLM providers, implement semantic search capabilities, and build intelligent agent workflows
  • Architect complex, multi-step AI evaluation pipelines for asynchronous job execution and large-scale data processing
  • Design and implement database schemas with proper indexing, query optimisation, and data isolation strategies
  • Build and maintain scalable micro-services with async/await patterns and type-safe code
  • Develop data-intensive UIs with real-time updates, complex state management, and intuitive user experiences
  • Deploy and manage containerised applications on Kubernetes with comprehensive observability
  • Write thorough tests (frontend and backend) and maintain high code quality standards with automated tooling
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right