Manager II - Application Security

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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
Uber's Engineering Security organization is growing and looking for an Application Security Manager to lead our appsec security engineering team. In this role you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled application security engineers whose principal mission is to assess and oversee the application security posture of Uber's production services and code. You will work closely with our engineering groups to define appsec tooling and platform requirements, and help us scale the traditional appsec model of finding vulnerabilities manually to a fully automated and autonomous system. This is a unique opportunity for an appsec manager who is collaborative, and has a healthy sense of curiosity to join Uber Engineering Security to make real positive impacts to our security posture, lead the strategic direction and evolution of our appsec team, and help us improve our security designs in our next-gen of systems and services.
What You'll Do

  • Lead, manage, and develop our geographically distributed application security team. Mentor and teach junior engineers
  • Manage a team that designs, builds and deploys CICD automation services to scale the discovery of security findings and bugs across all company apps and microservices
  • Partner with other engineering teams to improve S-SDL processes and deliverables
  • Create quality written work products and engineering artifacts for both technical engineering and non-technical consumers
  • Be a subject matter expert and ambassador to Uber Engineering and our subsidiaries, for secure coding practices, and all aspects of applications security
  • Work with product teams throughout the company to provide security guidance to application and service owners to remediate known appsec vulnerabilities

Basic Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering (or more), and equivalent work experience as a software engineering or security practitioner
  • Programming skills in at least one of: Java, Go, Python or Node.js (bonus points for more than one).
  • 2+ years of management experience, and 5+ years overall of relevant engineering, product development and/or security engineering
  • Have a formal knowledge of typical appsec attack vectors, exploits and mitigations, and be able to translate and classify pen-test and assessment findings into actionable application security bugs for engineering.
  • Ability to problems solve and make complex analytical decisions with less than full information in ambiguous situations and environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a history of successful execution in application security within industry.
  • Prior experience leading teams over multiple locations
  • Experience working with in-house engineering organizations, S-SDLC/CICD software lifecycle and QA processes, and understanding of software security architecture principles.
  • Familiarity with deployment of application architectures within AWS and GCP public cloud providers


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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