Software Engineer

Solid experience with a high level programming language (bonus points for experience with Python, Go-lang and shell scripts)
Experience with (or a deep interest in) computer security
When facing a problem that’s poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly learn what you need to dig in, make sense of the problem, and start working towards a solution
You’re a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your teammates’ goals and priorities
You understand that security work must be prioritized because all teams have finite resources. You have good judgment and a sense of when to compromise and when to hold your ground
Understanding of computer network security or major computer networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS).

Architect and build services that improve the security of our systems with an eye towards scalability and avoiding unnecessary friction.
Evangelize our shared security responsibility model by collaborating with other Infrastructure teams at Lyft to ensure that our services and workflows are secure by default.
Work on embedding security best practices such as least privilege, isolation, monitoring, authentication and authorization across our infrastructure
Develop critical services that Lyft depends on such as our credential management service that provides secrets to all our services at Lyft.
Provide rich data to engineers at Lyft to drive manual and automated decision making by working on our open-source service Cartography, which shows relationships between our infrastructure assets.
Ensuring least privilege is enforced by improving role-based access control and Identity Access Management for our users and services.

Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other major cloud service provider
Kubernetes and container security and running fleets of endpoints or servers in the cloud.
Cryptography, PKI, or key distribution
Running multi-tier or distributed web applications at scale