Software Engineer, Lyft
Detection Engineering
$128-160k
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-160k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of software engineering or security engineering industry experience
- Solid experience with a high level programming language (bonus points for experience with Python, Go-lang and shell scripts)
- Exposure to Database technologies including NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Experience (or deep interest in) working with security systems
- Understanding of computer network security or major computer networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS)
Desirable
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other major cloud service provider
- Experience with data analysis, particularly with large datasets (millions of events)
- Kubernetes and container technology experience
- Streaming services (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis)
What the job involves
- Detection Engineering owns ingestion of security related events, identification of anomalies, and produces insights to stakeholders across the business
- Help establish roadmaps and prioritize projects based on stakeholders’ needs
- Understand and develop detections related to security events at Lyft
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Supporting and improving our existing detection pipelines
- Lead large projects from idea to successful execution
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
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
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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