Security Analyst - Incident Response & Threat Hunting

Lyft; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a Security Analyst to join the Security team and help scale protection across engineering systems. You will work on incident response, threat hunting, and building automation to accelerate investigations and detection.

Collaboration with Detection Engineering and other teams is a key part of this role. The ideal candidate brings strong cybersecurity knowledge, scripting skills, and a proactive mindset to adapt to evolving threats while upholding highest ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Strong drive to learn and grow within cybersecurity.
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape and best practices.
• Familiarity with TTPs, anomaly detection and behavior analysis.
• Scripting and automation skills; basic experience with AWS/GCP.
• Strong OS and networking security knowledge across Windows/Linux/macOS.
• Natural root-cause solver using log analysis and forensic trails.
• Ability to aggregate and correlate data to spot suspicious patterns.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to speed workflows and tasks.

Responsibilities

• Incident Response: respond promptly to security incidents with coordinated actions.
• Analyze and prioritize high-quality security alerts that impact the org.
• Develop automation and tooling to enhance incident response.
• Collaborate with Detection Engineering to implement new strategies.
• Conduct threat hunting to uncover gaps and refine controls.
• Assess threat landscape to guide proactive security measures.
• Cultivate relationships with internal and external partners for info sharing.

Skills

Automation & Cloud

Systems & Networking

Investigative Mindset

Data Analytics

AI Augmentation

Communication Skills

Adaptability

Ethical Standards

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Lyft is seeking a Security Analyst to join the Security team and help scale protection across engineering systems. You will work on incident response, threat hunting, and building automation to accelerate investigations and detection.

Collaboration with Detection Engineering and other teams is a key part of this role. The ideal candidate brings strong cybersecurity knowledge, scripting skills, and a proactive mindset to adapt to evolving threats while upholding highest ethical standards.