Senior Software Engineer, IAM & Systems Architect

Uber; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Job summary

Uber in San Francisco is seeking a senior security-focused software engineer to own the architecture of core security services, focusing on access control, enforcement at scale, and trusted identity.

You will lead distributed systems initiatives, collaborate across teams, and ensure reliability and performance of critical backend infrastructure through design excellence and strong technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with high-availability distributed systems.
• Proven leadership in driving complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives across team boundaries.
• Strong expertise in backend infrastructure and security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision and architecture for core security services focused on access management and enforcement at scale.
• Own critical platform components and drive reliability and performance improvements across teams.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Microservices Architecture

Backend Infrastructure

Authentication

Authorization

IAM

PKI

Software Design

System Architecture

Caching Strategies

Asynchronous Messaging

Observability

AI

ML

Technical Leadership

Security Engineering

Job description

Uber in San Francisco is seeking a senior security-focused software engineer to own the architecture of core security services, focusing on access control, enforcement at scale, and trusted identity.

You will lead distributed systems initiatives, collaborate across teams, and ensure reliability and performance of critical backend infrastructure through design excellence and strong technical leadership.