Uber
Sr Security Technologist - Incident Commander
$180K–$200K
United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in security operations, detection, or incident response roles at scale.
About the job
Leads Uber’s highest-impact security incidents from escalation through recovery, investigation, and systemic remediation, while improving incident response practices and tooling.
What you'll do
- Command critical security incidents, direct investigations, and brief senior leadership during active response.
- Lead post-incident analysis and drive systemic prevention and remediation.
- Improve incident response through simulations, threat-informed planning, automation, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security operations, detection, or incident response roles at scale, with ownership of complex, high-impact incidents.
- Deep familiarity with modern attacker TTPs and strong technical investigation skills using logs, telemetry, and raw system data.
- Experience briefing executives during active incidents and designing or running technical incident simulations.
- Experience building or leveraging AI-driven tooling to improve incident response.
Nice to have
- Experience directly commanding and mentoring responders, and responding in distributed, cloud-scale environments.
- Ability to script or code (Python, Go, or similar).
Pay
USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year (base salary); USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year (base salary); USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go
AI focus
Build or use AI-driven tooling for incident response workflows such as triage, investigation, correlation, or decision support.
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