Staff Engineer - Luxury Platform (Hybrid, 3x/wk)

Lyft; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

18 weeks parental leave

Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft credits and Lyft Pink membership

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own and shape the long-term architecture across backend, frontend, iOS and Android for the Luxury experiences in the San Francisco area. You will drive the technical roadmap, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality systems.

You will partner with product, data science and operations to improve observability, performance, and reliability while maintaining a strong focus on user experience for passengers and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with leadership and system ownership.
• Experience developing mobile apps and guiding client-server and iOS/Android decisions.
• Deep expertise in fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience driving technical roadmaps, cross-team dependencies, and architecture at org level.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o).
• Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape long-term architecture for full-stack systems and drive health and scalability.
• Translate business goals into actionable engineering projects and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Improve observability, performance, and tech debt reduction across the platform.
• Establish deployment, alerting, and on-call best practices for platform stability.
• Drive alignment across product, design, and operations; resolve bottlenecks and trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers, lead cross-team reviews, and promote technical excellence.
• Act as a key interviewer and contributor in Lyft's internal engineering community.

Skills

Years of experience

Mobile apps guidance

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Kubernetes/Docker/cri-o

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

cri-o

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Lyft is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own and shape the long-term architecture across backend, frontend, iOS and Android for the Luxury experiences in the San Francisco area. You will drive the technical roadmap, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality systems.

You will partner with product, data science and operations to improve observability, performance, and reliability while maintaining a strong focus on user experience for passengers and