Staff Software Engineer, Luxury

Responsibilities

• Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack 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 issue root causes and building preventive safeguards.
• 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

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.
• Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making.
• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for premium ride-sharing services.

Compensation

• Expected base pay range: $176,000 - $220,000 (San Francisco area), not inclusive of potential equity, bonus or benefits.
• Benefits include: medical, dental, vision insurance; mental health benefits; family building, child care and pet benefits; 401(k) with company match; discretionary PTO for salaried; 18 weeks paid parental leave; subsidized commuter benefits; monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.