Lyft
Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Business
$176K–$220K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 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.
- Education
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and delivery of Lyft Business systems spanning rider and administrator experiences and enterprise integrations.
What you'll do
- Own architecture, technical roadmaps, delivery, and cross-team dependencies for complex systems.
- Improve system reliability, observability, performance, deployment practices, and on-call health.
- Align cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and promote engineering excellence.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise designing, debugging, and operating fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing organizational architecture.
- 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
AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o
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