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 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.

About the role:

The mission: Empower the company to make informed, prioritized and automated security decisions. Democratize adversarial thinking along with “assume breach” mindset across Lyft to improve our ability to predict, sustain, investigate and recover from threats.

We’re looking for the right passionate person to join our team to help stimulate and scale new and existing proactive security measures across our services, applications, and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Evangelize the assume breach mindset and work across Lyft to drive change across anticipate/protect/detect/response
• Plan and execute red team operations against our service and processes to assess and prioritize the efficacy of our managerial, operational, and technical security controls
• Automate TTP and integrate capabilities into existing test platforms

Experience & Skills:

• 3+ years conducting red team/pentesting exercises and familiarity with offensive TTP along with lateral movements
• Offensive security experience attacking Linux/Unix systems.
• Ability to communicate complex issues, concepts, or ideas in a confident and blameless manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means
• Programming experience automating common pen testing and infiltration tasks
• Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies
• Familiarity with common pentesting toolkits (Metasploit, CANVAS, Cobalt, Empire …)
• Common risk management framework and risk scoring methodologies

Lyft is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Lyft will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.