Senior Security Engineer - Iam

Uber Uber · Consumer · Bangalore, India · Engineering

This Senior Security Engineer role focuses on designing and developing Identity and Access Governance systems, including authentication, authorization, and single sign-on. While the team is exploring the use of AI/ML, the core responsibilities are in traditional IAM, security controls, and software engineering best practices. The role involves technical leadership, system design, implementation, and maintenance of IAM platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the Identity platform (e.g. SailPoint IIQ, Cloud Identity, LDAP, MFA, SSO, etc.) at Uber.
  2. Practice Software engineering best practices while writing or reviewing code
  3. Develop high quality engineering design documents for new integrations and initiatives
  4. Engineer, Configure, Implement and maintain Identity and Access Management solutions and services
  5. Resolve bugs through strong programming, critical problem solving, database query skills

Skills

Required

  • 7+ Years of experience in development, Design and consulting for developing, designing SailPoint IIQ or similar IGA solutions, and Authentication platforms at large organizations.
  • Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL e.g. MySQL)
  • Ability to decompose complex business problems and help lead multiple teams in solving them.
  • Understand Role-Based Access Control, Policy-Based Access Control, Attribute based access control, Governance, Access Certification in SailPoint
  • Experience in Web and Middleware technologies such as Nginx, Tomcat, Weblogic

Nice to have

  • 3+ Years working experience in Devops, Linux, Puppet and Infrastructure automation
  • Experience working with AI/ML, MCP, Prompt engineering to build Identity solutions, or solve operational issues
  • Relevant Certifications from the Industry and Technology such as SailPoint, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco and Redhat.
  • Relevant publications in personnel identity, authentication and authorization areas.
  • Skill set in traffic management, Service and Session Load balancing skills primarily on HAProxy, NLB and F5 are added benefits.
  • Leveraged tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilots to improve developer productivity

What the JD emphasized

  • design and development of Identity and Access Governance systems
  • authentication, authorization, and single sign-on app integrations
  • Identity Security controls, best practices, compliance controls
  • design and build extensible access governance features, centralized and adaptive access management system, and Risk Models
  • transformation of Identity and Access management solutions
  • leverage AI/ML is going to be a tremendous addition to this team
  • 7+ Years of experience in development, Design and consulting for developing, designing SailPoint IIQ or similar IGA solutions, and Authentication platforms at large organizations.