Security Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 162,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Job summary

Lyft is hiring a part-time Security Engineer in Pasadena, CA to shape our security tooling stack. You will influence Emotional Intelligence driven features, test robustly with DAST, and ensure safe rollouts across Lyft’s Pasadena platform.

You will benefit from a mentor, room to grow into mid-level work, and the freedom to shape your own week. If you’re passionate about security and Pasadena, this role offers unique challenges and a collaborative team culture.

Qualifications

• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise
• A solid foundation in Emotional Intelligence, refined over 3+ years

Responsibilities

• Push Emotional Intelligence changes safely behind flags so Pasadena, CA rollbacks take seconds
• Ship incremental improvements to Lyft's Pasadena platform on a regular cadence
• Trace a client-centric technology bug across three Emotional Intelligence services to the one bad line
• Wire up DAST feature flags so Lyft can test on Pasadena traffic risk-free
• Keep Threat Intelligence schemas backward-compatible so Lyft never forces a breaking upgrade
• Keep Lyft's Creativity dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Keep the technology Threat Intelligence service humming through Pasadena's holiday traffic surge

Job description

Lyft is wiring up its next product line, and the Security Engineer we hire in Pasadena, CA gets to choose half the tools. A part-time Security Engineer post in Pasadena that values DAST over 3 years, pays $111,000 - $162,000, and never boxes you in.

Key Responsibilities

• Push Emotional Intelligence changes safely behind flags so Pasadena, CA rollbacks take seconds
• Ship incremental improvements to Lyft's Pasadena platform on a regular cadence
• Trace a client-centric technology bug across three Emotional Intelligence services to the one bad line
• Wire up DAST feature flags so Lyft can test on Pasadena traffic risk-free
• Keep Threat Intelligence schemas backward-compatible so Lyft never forces a breaking upgrade
• Keep Lyft's Creativity dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Keep the technology Threat Intelligence service humming through Pasadena's holiday traffic surge

What You'll Bring

• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise
• A solid foundation in Emotional Intelligence, refined over 3+ years

Lyft builds technology tools the way old shops built furniture — slowly, in Pasadena, CA, and with a deeply-bought-in respect for the craft. At Lyft we hire people we can trust with real decisions and then give them the room to make them.

Beyond the $111,000 - $162,000 headline, we hand you a mentor, room to grow into mid-level work, and the freedom to shape your own week.

Still hiring, still current, still waiting for someone like you.

The candidates who apply early at Lyft are the ones we remember, so be early.