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.

Developing an autonomous vehicle is a complicated prospect. Ultimately there’s a series of computers that are in control of passenger safety (to varying degrees), and so the security requirements of these computers must be stringent.  We quickly end up needing to design systems that must be highly reliable and highly robust, in best-of-breed architectures for segmentation and assurance, with secure development methodologies that will withstand close scrutiny.  Oh, and did we mention that there’s no instruction manual on how to do this?

We’re looking for a software engineer  who likes a challenge and who wants to have an impact.  You will be responsible for designing and building cloud-based security-critical backend systems, tooling, and on-vehicle services. You will collaborate with other teams across L5 and integrate these systems and tools with the rest of L5 infrastructure and on-vehicle software. We at Lyft are intending to produce the most secure vehicle the world has ever seen, so there’s lots of possibilities for your work to have impact far beyond Lyft, and out into the rest of the automotive industry.

Responsibilities:

• Define back-end systems and on-vehicle services that are consistent with L5’s security architecture vision and enable us to meet our security objectives
• Work with stake-holders within L5 as well as across the industry to gather and define the precise engineering requirements for these systems and services
• Design, build, and deploy these systems and services, and integrate them into broader L5 framework
• Champion L5’s security vision across the industry and influence the industry towards an overall better security posture

Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience programming in multiple languages, ideally C/C++, Python, Bash, SQL
• Strong background in microservices-based architecture
• Strong Cloud skills (ideally AWS)
• Experience architecting and developing security/safety-critical software is a plus
• Experience with several development methodologies, including SDL and Agile
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits: 

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance optionsIn addition to 11 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

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