About the role:
Engages with stakeholders across teams to lead the development and maintenance of backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
About the Team:
The Account Security & Device Intelligence team plays a crucial role in our mission to weed out the bad actors in our system while ensuring powerful, intuitive and frictionless user experiences for our customers (riders) and partners (drivers, restaurants, freight companies). Our continued obsession for innovation in this space is essential to enable Uber's phenomenal growth globally as we expand into new lines of business.
As a lead engineer on this team, you will

• Work on cutting edge technologies to automatically detect and prevent bot logins/signups and account takeovers.
• Build scalable device intelligence platform that collects detailed device data from mobile and web browser and builds unique device identifiers to reduce friction and prevent fraud.
• Integrate with 3rd parties to perform additional data validations
• Integrate with business systems dealing with risk, safety, and compliance.
• Provide product security expertise and technical direction for account security & device intelligence initiatives defined by the business.
• Provide guidance and support to product development teams throughout the product development lifecycle on a variety of security requirements.
• Build strong partnerships with counterparts in core engineering, operations, and compliance.

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 3-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 2-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)

• Note the 2-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:
Preferred:

• Product engineering
• Scalability engineering
• Distributed systems

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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