7 hours ago
Base Salary
$176k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the long-term architecture and health of full-stack systems while delivering short-term functionality.
- Translate business goals into engineering projects and own technical roadmaps from conception through delivery.
- Manage cross-team dependencies, mitigate risks, and drive alignment across engineering, product, design, data science, analytics, and operations.
- Improve system observability, performance, stability, and technical debt reduction across the organization.
- Establish deployment, alerting, and on-call health practices while investigating root causes and building preventive safeguards.
- Mentor and develop engineers, delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and promote technical excellence.
- Participate in high-bar interviewing and Lyft’s broader internal engineering community.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience with a record of technical leadership and system ownership.
- Experience developing mobile applications and guiding client-server, iOS, and Android decisions.
- Deep expertise designing, debugging, and operating fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing architecture at an organizational level.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, or cri-o.
- Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with additional programs available when enrolled.
- Mental health, family building, child care, and pet benefits.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Twelve observed holidays and paid time off policies based on salaried or hourly status.
- Eighteen weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits, monthly Lyft credits, and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.
- Hybrid schedule requiring in-office work three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with up to four weeks per year working from anywhere.
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About Lyft
Lyft is a NASDAQ-listed transportation marketplace that connects riders with drivers and offers bike and scooter rentals in one app. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates across the U.S. and parts of Canada. Its revenue comes from service fees on rides and rentals, enterprise programs, and consumer subscriptions such as Lyft Pink.