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Principal Engineer - Security AI

Uber · Seattle, WA · posted 8 days ago

In short: Principal Engineer - Security AI at Uber in Seattle, WA, posted 8 days ago.

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 09/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

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The job

LIVE Live feed (private-sector employer) Source: The Muse public API · Data: listed 2026-11-01

Employer	Uber
Location	Seattle, Washington
Field	Technology › Data, analytics and AI
Level	Senior Level
Source category	Software Engineering
Posted	2026-11-01 (8 days ago)
Work arrangement	On-site at the location listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

About the role and team

Uber's Security Engineering team's mission is to protect, defend, and secure Uber's products, infrastructure and data by building highly available, scalable and extensible security solutions and services. We are focused on proactively identifying and remediating security risks as well as swiftly detecting and mitigating security incidents. In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, we continuously adapt and evolve our defenses in order to always stay one step ahead of potential threats.

As a passionate and pragmatic technologist, you will lead efforts within the organization to drive the development and operations of security services and frameworks to support user-facing products and platforms across Uber. At Uber, Principal Engineers are among the top 2% of our engineering community-senior technologists who combine vision with execution. They are trusted experts who design at scale, write production-quality code, mentor senior engineers, and set the technical culture across teams.

In this role, you will be the Principal Engineer focused on Security in the era of AI. As machine learning and generative AI reshape technology, new security challenges and opportunities are emerging at scale. Uber is looking for a leader who can anticipate, design, and implement security solutions that protect our systems and users while enabling rapid innovation.

You'll work directly with Uber's senior security leadership and partner with engineering leaders across infrastructure, product, and AI/ML teams. The impact of this role spans the company: defining how Uber secures agentic systems, LLM platforms, and AI-driven products that touch millions of people worldwide.

What you'll do

AI & Security Leadership: Lead Uber's approach to securing AI systems, including LLMs, agents, and next-gen infrastructure. Develop strategies for access management, monitoring, and threat detection in an AI-first world.
Engineer at Core: Design, prototype, and ship secure systems and tools. Contribute to code reviews, frameworks, and libraries that harden our infrastructure and applications.
Technical Leadership: Serve as a trusted technical leader and domain expert in cybersecurity-covering areas like identity, access, data protection, secure networking, and AI/agentic systems.
Architecture & Strategy: Drive long-term architecture decisions with a focus on security, scalability, and developer velocity. Influence engineering practices across the organization to embed security into design.
Hands-on Problem Solving: Investigate incidents, dive into code, and solve the hardest security challenges.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, and business teams to integrate security seamlessly.
Innovation & Research: Stay ahead of emerging threats and technologies (cloud, AI agents, zero trust, supply chain security) and apply them to our environment.

What you'll need

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in security.
Proven track record as a technical leader-driving design, influencing architecture, and mentoring senior engineers.
Expert knowledge in one or more of: secure systems design, applied cryptography, cloud security, identity and access management, zero trust architecture, or AI/agentic security.
Hands-on experience building or securing AI/ML platforms, LLMs, or agentic systems, with the ability to anticipate new classes of threats and define a long-term security roadmap.
Strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
Experience building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure and developer tooling.
Hands-on problem solver with ability to dive into complex codebases and debug.
Strong communication skills with ability to influence executives, peers, and engineers alike.
Passion for building secure systems that enable business innovation rather than slow it down.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience in rapidly scaling tech environments, taking security products from zero-to-one.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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The city

The job is in Seattle, WA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Seattle compares. Among the 80 largest places in Washington, Seattle is #1 by population, #76 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #8 for college degrees (#1 = most), #8 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, King County, is #1 of 39 counties for average pay ($132,279).

The place in numbers

Seattle has 754,195 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 9.6% of the population of Washington. It covers 84 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 8,979 people per square mile. The median age is 35.6, 7% younger than the state median (35.6 against 38.3).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,030 a month (rent plus utilities), 15% above the state median ($2,030 against $1,760). Over a year that is 19.7% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $938,600, which is 7.6 times the median household income ($123,860); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.7% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (43.7% against 63.8%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area has 2,086,210 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $72,610 a year, 42% above the national median ($72,610 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (212,900 jobs, median $59,660); business and financial operations (201,160 jobs, median $101,950); computer and mathematical (194,970 jobs, median $156,000). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (2.8 times) and architecture and engineering (1.4 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($168,110) and computer and mathematical ($156,000). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of King County was 4.8%. 74.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in King County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 36.6% drive alone, 11.9% use public transit, 8.1% walk, 34.8% work from home. 13.9% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 18% below the state average (13.9% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

68.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 73% above the state share (68.5% against 39.6%). 20.1% of residents were born outside the United States, 31% above the state share (20.1% against 15.4%). The poverty rate is 9.9%, about the same as the state rate (9.9% against 9.9%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 65°F (18.3°C), and the coolest is Dec at 39°F (3.8°C). About 1,230 mm (48 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Nov is the wettest month (188 mm) and Jul the driest (19 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Mercer Island (7 miles, rent 23% higher); Bainbridge Island (7 miles, rent 8% higher); Kirkland (9 miles, rent 18% higher); Bellevue (9 miles, rent 27% higher). Rent differences are against Seattle; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Seattle, WA that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
Seattle, WA	0 mi	$2,030	$938,600	$123,860	13.9%	n/a	Jobs
Mercer Island, WA	7 mi	$2,502	$2,000,001	$219,069	8.7%	n/a	—
Bainbridge Island, WA	7 mi	$2,194	$1,155,900	$172,188	37.2%	n/a	—
Kirkland, WA	9 mi	$2,401	$1,115,400	$150,414	10.8%	n/a	—
Bellevue, WA	9 mi	$2,572	$1,340,300	$165,576	11.1%	n/a	Jobs
Shoreline, WA	10 mi	$1,985	$811,100	$112,751	17.1%	n/a	—
Burien, WA	10 mi	$1,782	$638,800	$91,318	15.5%	n/a	—
Kenmore, WA	10 mi	$1,949	$920,800	$139,764	19.3%	n/a	—
Tukwila, WA	10 mi	$1,898	$489,000	$78,381	14.6%	n/a	—
Redmond, WA	12 mi	$2,409	$1,167,800	$162,560	9.8%	n/a	Jobs
Renton, WA	12 mi	$1,998	$672,600	$100,432	22.0%	n/a	Jobs
Mountlake Terrace, WA	12 mi	$2,004	$667,300	$107,687	17.8%	n/a	—
SeaTac, WA	12 mi	$1,660	$519,700	$81,104	14.7%	n/a	—
Bothell, WA	13 mi	$2,346	$925,100	$140,427	16.6%	n/a	—
Edmonds, WA	13 mi	$1,903	$890,100	$122,449	16.7%	n/a	—
Bothell West, WA	14 mi	$2,511	$824,900	$153,449	29.0%	n/a	—
Lynnwood, WA	15 mi	$1,742	$686,900	$77,704	19.6%	n/a	Jobs
Sammamish, WA	15 mi	$2,857	$1,407,300	$239,690	18.2%	n/a	—
Issaquah, WA	15 mi	$2,590	$963,000	$154,669	12.8%	n/a	—
Fairwood, WA	15 mi	$2,233	$733,200	$122,134	28.0%	n/a	—

Career paths

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Cybersecurity (366) Software engineering (1880) Cloud, IT and infrastructure (504) Product management (412)

Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Seattle, WA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
Seattle, WA	0 mi	754,195
San Francisco, CA	684 mi	830,235
San Jose, CA	714 mi	990,138
Los Angeles, CA	962 mi	3,857,263
Denver, CO	1,024 mi	718,877
San Diego, CA	1,059 mi	1,389,526
Phoenix, AZ	1,108 mi	1,642,323
Oklahoma City, OK	1,524 mi	697,125
Fort Worth, TX	1,658 mi	963,194
Dallas, TX	1,681 mi	1,307,930
Chicago, IL	1,732 mi	2,711,226
Austin, TX	1,769 mi	979,539
San Antonio, TX	1,784 mi	1,479,835
Indianapolis, IN	1,869 mi	885,860
Houston, TX	1,888 mi	2,328,253
Columbus, OH	2,009 mi	914,802
Charlotte, NC	2,283 mi	903,844
Philadelphia, PA	2,374 mi	1,579,706
New York, NY	2,407 mi	8,483,844
Jacksonville, FL	2,452 mi	977,670

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Bellevue, WA	9 mi	75
Redmond, WA	12 mi	3
Lynnwood, WA	15 mi	3

The employer

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Company description (from The Muse): Uber is changing how people think about transportation, part of the logistical fabric of 600+ cities. Whether it’s a ride, a sandwich, or a package, Uber gives people what they want when they want it.

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Median rent in Seattle is $2,030 a month and median household income $123,860 (ACS 2020–2024).

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