Principal Software Engineer, Security - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

At Lyft, community is what we are and it's what we do. It's what makes us different. To create the best ride for all, we start in our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization where all team members are recognized for what they bring.

Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched. Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities.

Responsibilities:

* Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
* Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
* Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
* Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices
* Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
* Act on feedback to learn and grow
* Unblock, support and effectively communicate across teams to achieve results

Experience:

* Must have 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
* Experience with object-oriented programming
* Experience or exposure to distributed systems
* Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
* Ability to thrive in a startup environment
* Ability to write thorough, scalable and clear design documentation
* Designs, builds and improves a set of team owned components

Benefits:

* Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
* In 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
* Monthly commuter subsidy to cover your transit to work
* 20% off all Lyft rides

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.