Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Business

About the position

The Lyft Business organization builds the platform that lets organizations 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 sweat the small stuff to make 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 organizations 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 organizational 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

Requirements

  • 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 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.
  • 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
  • Subsidized commuter benefits
  • Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership
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