Staff Security Engineer, Application Security

U.S. Anywhere

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At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

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.

The Team

The security team designs and builds Lyft's security architecture, consults with other teams as they build and launch new products and features, proactively plans for the unexpected, and responds to incidents that occur. Our work affects the entire company and takes place at all levels of the stack, from infrastructure to web application security, as well as mobile apps, IT, bikes, scooters, and autonomous vehicles. We try to approach security from a software engineering standpoint. We believe in scaling security through automation and tooling and we ship frequently. Check out our blog posts at https://eng.lyft.com/tagged/security to learn more about some of the things we’ve built.

The Security team’s mission: Empower the company to ship secure products. Provide clear guidance on secure code and implement quality gates across our software delivery pipeline.

We’re looking for the right person to join our Application Security team to advance our security review program and establish processes that empower engineers to make informed security decisions. We work closely with many teams across the company to review designs, identify vulnerabilities, and provide guidance on security best practices. In order to be scalable, we need to understand root causes, pinpoint similar issues across Lyft and drive sustainable remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams across Lyft to understand their service, identify potential security issues and provide actionable remediation recommendations 
  • Proactively research new attack vectors that may affect Lyft and share that knowledge with the team
  • Dig into the root cause of systematic vulnerabilities and build ways to prevent problems at scale
  • Proactively identify further instances of the same issue through scripting and automation to drive resolutions that eliminate underlying issues
  • Perform dynamic, hands-on remediation testing to ensure fixes are appropriately mitigated
  • Use your knowledge of frequent issues to establish guidance and best practices for Lyft engineers
  • Perform threat modeling, code review and penetration testing of Lyft features and services

Experience & Skills

  • Penetration testing against web applications, cloud environments and/or mobile (iOS/Android)
  • Development skills to automate code security assessment and scale your impact
  • Computer networking concepts and protocols, application and network security methodologies
  • Network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth)
  • Previous experience presenting findings, recommendations and results to leadership
  • Strong communication skills and ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means
  • Experience with bug bounty research or giving security conference talks is a plus
  • CTF experience and having a hacker mindset
  • Experience with (or a deep interest in) computer security, ideally in both attacking and defending services
  • When facing a problem that's poorly defined or outside of your expertise, you can quickly and independently 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

Benefits

  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building 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

This role is work-from-anywhere, excluding the following states and all U.S. territories: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Puerto Rico.

For candidates living in Colorado the expected base pay range is $182,160-$211,600 and depending on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location.

Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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 or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. 

Until further notice, Lyft employees working in the United States and Canada in any capacity (on a daily or hybrid schedule, remote, or as a visitor) are required to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated and up to date against COVID-19. Fully vaccinated and up to date means an employee has: 1) received all recommended doses in a primary series of COVID-19 vaccine; and 2) either has received a booster dose or is not yet eligible to receive a booster dose but will do so when eligible. Lyft will maintain records associated with your vaccination history in a way that is compliant with all relevant Federal, state and local laws. Exceptions to this requirement are employees who require religious or medical exemption as approved through Lyft's accommodations process. New employees must provide proof of full vaccination or receive an accommodation exception approval prior to their start date.

Tags: Android Application security Automation Cloud CTF iOS Network security Pentesting Scripting Security assessment Vulnerabilities

Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Unlimited paid time off

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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