Staff Software Engineer, Lyft
Data Privacy
$180-215k
+ Equity and bonus
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-215k
+ Equity and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a software engineer with experience in at least one modern object oriented programming language. You love to code and are excited at the prospect of launching services and tools in a rapidly changing environment
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You thrive in collaborative environments
- You have sound judgment and a strong work ethic. You can independently triage and prioritize work
- You challenge the status quo. You see weak spots in complex systems, come up with solutions and advocate for them
- Implementing coding standards, source control management, build processes, code reviews and testing
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) or another cloud infrastructure provider
- NoSQL datastores (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Distributed SQL query engines (e.g. Trino and Spark)
- Workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow)
- Building distributed systems or web applications at scale
- Secure coding frameworks (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
What the job involves
- As a member of the Data Privacy team you will work with teams across Lyft ensuring products, services, and partnerships are protecting company and individual data from unauthorized or unnecessary access
- You will implement and maintain preventive, detective and remedial controls; work closely with the security team providing privacy controls at scale; and regularly consult with others throughout the organization to minimize risk exposure and improve data safeguards
- Develop critical frameworks that control access to systems, encrypt sensitive data and create audit trails
- Build and launch tools that continuously and automatically identify vulnerabilities and undesirable practices improving visibility for incident response
- Identify weaknesses in technical and human workflows; develop solutions to mitigate or correct weaknesses
- Consult with engineering teams on privacy issues throughout the software development life-cycle
- Build and launch distributed systems in AWS, built on top of NoSQL datastores such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc
- Consult with engineering and legal teams to understand data retention, deletion, use and exposure requirements
- Advocate for data privacy throughout the organization
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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