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About the Role
The Luxury team at Lyft builds high-quality app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for premium ride-sharing services. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader, taking ownership of complex systems, defining roadmaps, and driving engineering excellence to enhance the luxury experience. You will collaborate with various teams to iterate quickly and delight passengers and drivers.
Responsibilities
- Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, ensuring both short-term functionality and long-term health.
- Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects and own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery.
- Manage cross-team dependencies and mitigate risks.
- Champion improvements in system observability, performance, and tech debt reduction.
- Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health.
- Take holistic ownership of platform stability, identifying root causes and building preventive safeguards.
- Drive alignment across product, design, and operations, resolving bottlenecks and making trade-offs.
- Mentor and develop engineers, delegate stretch opportunities, and lead cross-team reviews.
- Foster a culture of strong technical excellence.
- Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s 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 guiding 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).
- Experience with 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)
- 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.
- 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 eligible).
- Subsidized commuter benefits.
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
About the Company
- Lyft's purpose is to serve and connect.
- Lyft cultivates 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.
- Lyft also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.