# Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Business

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

The Lyft Business organisation builds the platform that lets organisations move the people they depend on – employees, clients, and customers. From the foundational mechanics of a company funding and provisioning a ride to the tailored workflows that get an employee to a client meeting or home after a late shift, we focus on making Lyft the transportation solution businesses build their programs on.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Lyft Business Team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of complex systems that span the rider experience, the administrator experience, and the enterprise integrations behind them , defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and driving engineering excellence to improve how organisations move their people.

## Responsibilities:

- Shape the long-term architecture for 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 your influence beyond your immediate team.

- Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues' root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond.

- Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organisational priorities.

- Mentor and level up the engineers around you. 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.

## Experience:

- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.

- 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 organisational 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.

- Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional mindset while actively lifting up the engineers around you.

## 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 to help save for your future.

- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.

- Subsidised commuter benefits.

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Distributed Systems
- Relational Databases
- NoSQL Databases
- Cloud Platforms
- Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- Microsoft Azure

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