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
We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager with technical depth, security intuition, and entrepreneurial spirit to join our Cyber Defense team! This innovator will lead the Threat Detection program that detects and tracks cybersecurity threats of all types. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative detection and threat hunting strategies while helping to develop a best-in-class threat detection program.
What You'll Do

• Drive a talented team to innovate, build, and refine advanced threat detections and content.
• Define roadmap, prioritization and key metrics.
• Drive cross organizational detection and threat hunting initiatives.
• Help talented engineers develop toward their goals
• Partner with other engineering teams, including incident response, to achieve cross-organizational goals.
• Inspire and empower your team through mentorship, professional development and connecting their work to our strategy.
• Grow the team by attracting and hiring top talent, both internally and externally.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a threat detection, threat hunting or intrusion analyst role
• 2+ years of experience leading or serving as the senior technical lead of a security team
• Experience with the majority of security log signals from Linux, macOS, Windows, EDR, NSM, and public cloud
• Experience building detection logic and utilizing security logs to detect malicious activity with high fidelity across a broad set of detection use cases.
• Understanding of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques.
• Experience with tools and techniques for analyzing large security datasets

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to set and achieve buy-in for strategic vision for the program
• Ability to set roadmaps and hit targets
• Ability to drive a small team to innovative solutions
• Are comfortable generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency
• Experience performing threat modeling and design reviews to identify new detection use cases.
• Ability to communicate ideas and proposals concisely, both verbally and written, to senior staff members
• Familiarity building detections mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix
• Ability to distill complex security problems and drive toward creative solutions
• Ability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge (avoid "analysis paralysis")
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

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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