Staff Engineer, Luxury

Lyft's Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride-sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated staff engineer to join us building app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes for which quality is uncompromising. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and engineering excellence to improve the luxury experience.

• Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack 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 influence beyond the immediate team.
• Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health.
• Take holistic ownership of platform stability, tracking down root causes and building preventive safeguards.
• Drive alignment across product, design, and operations.
• Mentor and level up engineers, delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft's internal engineering community.

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.
• Experience developing mobile apps and guiding client-server and iOS/Android decision making.
• Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o).
• Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible)
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $176,000 - $220,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits.