# Staff Software Engineer, Rider

**Company:** [Lyft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lyft)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Relational Databases, NoSQL, System Architecture, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Staff Software Engineer on the Rider team leading architecture, technical roadmaps, and cross-team alignment for Lyft's rideshare platform. Requires 8+ years experience building large-scale distributed systems.

## Job Description

## 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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