Software Engineer, Detection Engineering

at Lyft
💰 $117k-$147k
🇺🇸 United States - Remote
💻 Software Development🔵 Mid-level

Job description

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.

Lyft Security builds systems to protect and defend infrastructure. We consult with teams as they build and launch new products and features, proactively plan for the unexpected, and respond to incidents that occur. Our work has company wide impact and takes place at all levels of the stack, from infrastructure to web application security, as well as mobile apps, IT, bikes and scooters. We believe in scaling security through engineering fundamentals, automation, and tooling. Check out our blog posts at https://eng.lyft.com/tagged/security  to learn more about some of the things we’ve built.

Detection Engineering owns ingestion of security related events, identification of anomalies, and produces insights to stakeholders across the business.

Responsibilities:

  • 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

Experience:

  • 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).
  • Nice to haves:
    • 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)

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
  • Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Seattle area is $117,000-$147,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

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