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Software Engineer, Detection Engineering

Lyft

$128,000 - $160,000
Aug 27, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US
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Lyft is looking to scale its security team to ensure the safety and security of its users' personal information and travel details

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering or security engineering industry experience
  • Solid experience with a high level programming language
  • Exposure to Database technologies including NoSQL
  • Experience (or deep interest in) working with security systems
  • Understanding of computer network security or major computer networking protocols
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other major cloud service provider
  • Experience with data analysis, particularly with large datasets
  • Kubernetes and container technology experience
  • Streaming services (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis) experience

Responsibilities

  • Help establish roadmaps and prioritize projects based on stakeholders’ needs
  • Understand and develop detections related to security events at Lyft
  • Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
  • Supporting and improving our existing detection pipelines
  • Lead large projects from idea to successful execution

Other

  • 4+ years of software engineering or security engineering industry experience
  • Discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Subsidized commuter benefits
  • Hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week