Staff Security Engineer: AI-Driven IR & Hunting

Uber; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 232,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the Cyber Defense team to architect AI-powered incident response and threat hunting capabilities, defending Uber's systems at machine speed.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable security platforms, and partner across IT and product to strengthen Uber's security posture while delivering high-quality, production-ready tooling and deployments.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software development or security engineering.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, high-availability, and high-performance system design.
• Hands-on experience with Cyber Defense such as incident response, threat hunting, and investigation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build autonomous security agents that investigate, triage, contain, and remediate incidents end-to-end, achieving response at machine speed and dramatically reducing mean-time-to-respond.
• AI-Driven Threat Hunting: Design and lead proactive, hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns across cloud, host, network, and application telemetry, and build the platforms and agents that scale hunting from manual expeditions to continuous, automated pursuit of adversaries.
• Investigation & Forensics at Scale: Build the tooling and data pipelines that power deep investigations and forensics - correlating signals, reconstructing attacker activity, and turning findings into repeatable, automated response playbooks.
• Detection Feedback Loop: Partner with detection engineering to convert hunt findings and incident learnings into higher-fidelity signals, closing the loop between what hunters find and what the platform detects.
• Technical Leadership: Set technical direction for specific projects by identifying priorities, managing expectations, and considering tradeoffs.
• Engineering Excellence: Champion best software engineering practices and empower teams to build a culture of quality and operational excellence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IT, product, and various security teams to strengthen response readiness and posture across the entire environment.
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of industry experience in a software development or security engineering environment.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, high-availability, and high-performance system design.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Golang

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

MS/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering or Information Security

Tools

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Splunk

Chronicle

Job description

Uber is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the Cyber Defense team to architect AI-powered incident response and threat hunting capabilities, defending Uber's systems at machine speed.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable security platforms, and partner across IT and product to strengthen Uber's security posture while delivering high-quality, production-ready tooling and deployments.