Senior Security Engineer, Lyft
Cloud Security
$148-185k
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform)
- Deep expertise with one or more major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud(GCP), etc
- Expertise in cloud service architecture and cloud security concepts
- Experience with Kubernetes and container security
- Able to write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll help us expand the team's scope 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
- Analyze data in our cloud asset inventory in order to enhance our CSPM capabilities
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
- Advise on security best practices in cloud environments
- Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational security initiatives
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code
- Collaborate with engineering organizations to build inherently secure cloud architecture solutions
- Able to exercise sound judgment and thrive in ambiguous situations
- 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
- 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
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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