Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Business

About the role

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. You will define strategic roadmaps, drive cross-functional alignment, and champion 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 root causes of issues 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

• 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.

Schedule

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — team members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Hybrid roles also have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

Pay

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $176,000 - $220,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus, or benefits.