• 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)

Desirable

• 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, and autonomous vehicles
• We're looking for an engineer who's excited about growing and improving security at Lyft by building systems and promoting security throughout the company
• You'll play a part in shaping the future of security at Lyft, and your work will have significant impact and visibility
• 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