Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Security

Lyft•San Francisco, CA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Lyft’s engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for Software Engineers with a passion in Security to help us scale. Come be part of the Security team at Lyft focused on enabling and empowering engineering teams to deliver secure services at scale. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they're going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's security team leads efforts across the company to ensure our systems are secure and worthy of our users' trust. The security team designs and builds Lyft's security architecture, consults with other teams as they build and launch new products and features, proactively plans for the unexpected, and responds to incidents that occur. Our work affects the entire company and takes place at all levels of the stack, from infrastructure to web application security, as well as mobile apps, IT, and autonomous vehicles. We try to approach security from an engineering standpoint. We believe in scaling security through automation and tooling and we ship frequently. Check out our blog posts at https://eng.lyft.com/tagged/security to learn more about some of the things we’ve built. The Cloud Security team’s mission is to improve Lyft’s maturity and protect our employees, partners, and intellectual property by architecting and executing on a comprehensive security model relative to our cloud infrastructure. As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll help us build this team and deliver on high impact objectives. This role will drive security reviews, implement detections, remediate findings, implement and enforce least privilege, separation of development environments, secure design, operation, and configuration of our multi-cloud and container environments.

Requirements

6+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with modern programing languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and distributed systems
Deep expertise with one or more major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud(GCP), Oracle Cloud, etc
Expertise in cloud service architecture and cloud security concepts
Experience with Kubernetes and container security
Familiarity with securing and hardening Linux hosts
Able to write clear, scalable and clear design documentation

Responsibilities

Establish and execute a roadmap for secure cloud architecture
Write readable, efficient, and maintainable code
Design security protocols to secure Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes at scale
Lead large projects from inception to implementation
Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational security initiatives
Design and implement cloud security solutions for monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and attack surface analysis and risk reduction
Collaborate with engineering organizations to build inherently secure cloud architecture solutions
Exercise sound judgment and thrive in ambiguous situations

Benefits

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
Child care and pet benefits
401(k) plan to help save for your future
In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
Subsidized commuter benefits
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