Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Business

<p>At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>Responsibilities:</h2> <ul> <li>Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health</li> <li>Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks</li> <li>Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities</li> <li>Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence</li> <li>Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community</li> </ul> <h2>Experience:</h2> <ul> <li>BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.</li> <li>Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level.</li> <li>Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.</li> <li>Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o).</li> <li>Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li>Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional mindset while actively lifting up the engineers around you.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Benefits:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled</li> <li>Mental health benefits</li> <li>Family building benefits</li> <li>Child care and pet benefits</li> <li>401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future</li> <li>In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off</li> <li>18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible</li> <li>Subsidized commuter benefits</li> <li>Monthly Lyft credits and