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About the Role

The Luxury team at Lyft builds rich and creative features for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket ride-sharing services. We are seeking a motivated Staff Engineer to develop app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure where quality is paramount. This role requires ownership and initiative to ensure code reaches users and drives impact.

Responsibilities

• Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health.
• Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects.
• Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks.
• Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending influence beyond the immediate team.
• Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health.
• Take holistic ownership of platform stability, tracking down issue root causes and building preventive safeguards.
• Drive alignment across product, design, and operations.
• Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities.
• Mentor and level up engineers.
• Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence.
• Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.
• Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making.
• Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o).
• Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Location

• San Francisco area

Work Type

• Hybrid
• In-office 3 days per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays)
• Remote (up to 4 weeks per year)

Experience Level

• Staff

Salary/Compensations

• $176,000 - $220,000

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members
• 15 days paid time off for hourly team members
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents)
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

About the Company

• Lyft's purpose is to serve and connect.
• We aim to cultivate a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Equal Opportunity

• Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law.
• We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.