Data Engineer, Lyft
Driver Team
CA$108-135k
Ride sharing company
Posted today
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Posted today
CA$108-135k
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, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in data engineering, ideally with large-scale distributed systems
- Strong skills in Spark, Python (or similar scripting language), and SQL performance tuning
- Experience with AWS, Hadoop/S3, Hive, Presto, Airflow, and related tools
- Solid understanding of ETL processes, workflow orchestration, and data warehousing
- A collaborative mindset—you’re comfortable working across teams to solve real-world problems
What the job involves
- To strengthen our efforts, we are hiring a Data Engineer to help us make data driven decisions
- Data Engineering is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making
- As a Data Engineer at Lyft, you will be tasked with developing robust data infrastructure—encompassing data transport, collection, and storage—and providing services that enable our leadership to make informed, risk-reducing decisions
- You will help architect, build, and launch scalable data pipelines to support Lyft’s growing data processing and analytics needs
- Your efforts will allow access to business and user behavior insights, using huge amounts of Lyft data to fuel several teams such as Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, and many others
- Our technology stack is based on the latest technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes and Apache Airflow
- You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on projects that delight millions of passengers and drivers
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines supporting driver insights and trip routing
- Improve data models and schema design to meet evolving engineering and business needs
- Monitor and improve data quality, consistency, and performance
- Support internal users with self-serve ETL tools and real-time analytics pipelines
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data science teams
Application process
- Applications for this position will be accepted until October 6, 2025. Lyft reserves the right to close the application process early or extend the deadline at its discretion
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
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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