Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
Developer Experience
CA$136-187k
Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$136-187k
Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in software development, automation, and systems engineering
- Experience with GitHub repository management, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer tooling
- Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies (e.g., Docker, cri-o) at scale
- Proven ability to design, build, and improve team-owned components
- Proficiency in one or more high-level languages, such as Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++, for large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to write clear, scalable design documentation
- Experience working in developer experience is a plus
- Bonus: Experience leveraging AI to enhance developer productivity, such as AI-assisted code completion and intelligent test generation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team at Lyft, you will shape and improve internal developer workflows and infrastructure, collaborating across teams to identify bottlenecks and design scalable solutions
- Our team accelerates key processes such as local development, continuous integration, code review, testing, and artifact management
- We directly impact every engineer at Lyft by reducing friction, integrating AI-powered automation, and ensuring a seamless developer experience
- Your work will make development at Lyft faster, more reliable, and more enjoyable
- Design, build, and optimize developer tools and infrastructure to streamline local development, source code management, CI, and code review, helping engineers ship high-quality code faster
- Partner with adjacent Infrastructure engineering teams to understand their use cases, debug problems, and design scalable infrastructure solutions
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code
- Build and develop partnerships across the organization to enhance the developer experience
- Lead incident responses, mentor the team on operational best practices, and implement long-term systemic fixes
- Develop and improve testing and automation processes to reduce operational burden
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams in mitigating customer-impacting events
- Mentor and guide junior engineers
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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