About this role
Lyft is a company focused on serving and connecting its community through a collaborative work environment. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Rider Team to lead technical initiatives, improve system architecture, and enhance the rideshare experience.
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 issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond
- 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