Lyft
Staff Engineer, Luxury
$176K–$220K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and delivery of full-stack systems for Lyft’s premium ride and chauffeur offerings, including app experiences and platform infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Define architecture and own technical roadmaps for complex systems, coordinating cross-team dependencies and delivery.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, deployment practices, and technical health.
- Align engineering with product, design, and operations; mentor engineers and contribute to hiring.
What they ask for
- Experience developing mobile apps and guiding client-server and iOS/Android decisions.
- Expertise designing, debugging, and operating fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with public cloud platforms and modern container orchestration technologies.
Pay
$176,000 - $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
iOS, Android, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o
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