Security Engineer

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 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.We work closely with many teams across the company to review designs and educate on best practices.In order to be scalable, we need to understand root causes, identify similar issues across Lyft and drive sustainable remediation efforts.**Responsibilities**:- Triage and validate issues identified through our Bug Bounty program- Collaborate with teams across Lyft to understand, verify and remediate identified security issues- Proactively research new attack vectors that may affect Lyft.- Proactively identify further instances of the same issue through scripting and automation and drive resolutions for the underlying issues.- Test fixes to ensure we are getting the most value from our reports- Use your knowledge of frequent issues to create and provide guidance and best practices for Lyft engineers- Threat model and code review of features/services.**Experience**:- Penetration testing against cloud environments and/or mobile (iOS/Android)- Development skills to automate code security assessment and scale your impact- Present findings, recommendations and results to leadership- Experience giving security conference talks.- Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means- Bug bounty research.- CTF experience.- 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- This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule if an established Lyft Location is available to the Mexico City region — Hybrid Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day.Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year._