The security organization at Uber is dedicated to enabling safe and secure innovation while protecting the communities we serve both online and in the physical world. Our teams are responsible for protecting both people and their data across intersections of the digital and physical world. The primary objective for Uber Engineering Security team is to enable the technical ambitions of the company while maintaining the highest standards of security and privacy for our customers and partners. As cybersecurity threats evolve, so do we.

About the Role

Privacy Engineering's mission is to make Uber the industry model for consumer privacy through differentiated products and services, standards in engineering, and clear communications. We are focusing on building both privacy technology platforms and user-facing products that give our users choice when it comes to their data, build trust, improve their data privacy, and enable our business.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with technical depth, product intuition, and high-reaching spirit to join our Technical Privacy Engineering team. You should feel comfortable in uncharted territory as we build innovative privacy technologies and grow user trust. We need your skills and passion to help make it happen.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions to address real world privacy concerns with a focus for efficient and optimized exporting of user data through close collaboration with various engineering and product teams, as well as many business and legal teams across Uber
Lead sophisticated technical projects from inception to release.
Deliver to provide transparency and choices to our users around their data and work towards growing user trust
Work closely team members giving and receiving constructive feedback to/from peers and mentoring engineers early in their careers.
Build services and backend platforms for Uber customers & internal collaborators to enable automation of various privacy functions
Work closely with large scale systems to handle the user data lifecycle
Drive excellence by voicing support for and adopting excellence on engineering standards, and consumer privacy
You will be very hands on as you and a small team design, build, and launch tools and run daily operations to manage Uber’s extensive software portfolio.

Basic Qualifications

Experience with Java/Scala, Go, Kafka, Spark or other backend technologies
Solid experience in designing large-scale and complex backed systems that deliver critical impact to the business.
An engineering-focused undergraduate degree or validated experience
5+ years of software engineering experience
Experience building highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant products and platforms
Validated experience collaborating with other engineers and non-tech customers, both to meet short term goals and to create long-term partnerships

Preferred Qualifications

Versatility. In addition to having an intimate knowledge of the backend stack, you see how it all fits together and can navigate both typical and sophisticated pitfalls.
Experience building tools in a bigdata environment
Ability to learn on the go. You flourish with new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You can adapt to meet the needs of our extensive scale, growth, and evolving business environment.
Ownership. You feel ownership for everything you deliver. You'd never call code "released" until you're satisfied that it's well implemented and tested. You pride yourself on efficient monitoring, thorough documentation, and proper test coverage.
Attention to details. Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details results in a delightful user experience.
A great teammate. You believe that you can achieve more on a team; that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement. You can take the lead and have a great sense of what doing 'the right thing' is. You seek ways to mentor others and share your knowledge with the team.
Security or privacy expertise. This is a nice-to-have requirement but you may have knowledge and experience in approaches to securing user data and keeping it private. You have knowledge of integrating privacy in the systems and product design process. You might have experience with privacy enhancing technologies, e.g. data anonymization or differential privacy.

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have a curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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