Software Engineer, Lyft
Cloud Security
CA$88-110k
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Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$88-110k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with modern programing languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and distributed systems
- Familiarity with one or more major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud(GCP), Oracle Cloud, etc
- Familiarity with securing and hardening Linux hosts
- Ability to explain and document complex ideas
Desirable
- Relevant professional security experience
- Familiarity with cloud service architecture, cloud security concepts, and best practices
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and containers
What the job involves
- 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 a Software Engineer on Cloud Security, you’ll help us define milestones and deliver on high impact objectives.
- This role will perform 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
- Establish and execute a roadmap for secure cloud architecture
- Write readable, efficient, and maintainable code
- Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Implement security protocols to secure Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes at scale
- Drive 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 cloud architecture solutions
- Able to exercise sound judgment and thrive in ambiguous situations
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 trialled 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, whilst the acquisition of European competitor Freenow could add 6 million new riders to its platform in 2026.
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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