# Senior Software Engineer, Community Safety

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Trust & Safety function at Lyft is dedicated to keeping every Lyft ride safe for both riders and drivers.

As a Senior Software Engineer working on Trust & Safety, you will work at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and policy to ship high-impact safety features to millions of users.

## Responsibilities:

- Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs

- Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results

- Lead projects of multiple people from idea to positive execution

- Write clear, scalable, and clear design documentation

- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code

- Utilize your expertise in Python, Golang, AWS to deliver robust and scalable solutions

- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

- Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents

- Share your knowledge through tech talks, mentorship, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices

## Experience:

- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience

- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience

- Extensive experience in object-oriented programming, ideally in GoLang or Python

- Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems and concurrency

- Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)

- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners

## Benefits:

- Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits

- Mental health benefits

- Family building benefits

- Child care and pet benefits

- Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account

- RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future

- In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service

- Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Golang
- AWS
- object-oriented programming
- backend software development
- large-scale distributed systems
- concurrency
- public cloud platforms

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