Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
Data Platform
$144-180k
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Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs
- The candidate should be able to dive deep into any problems with lots of ambiguity and build a technical solution to solve it
- They should be willing to take ownership of a project or a feature and be able to drive it from design to implementation
- 5+ years of experience with building, deploying and maintaining low latency, high throughput services
- 5+ years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, and/or experience with compute technologies
- 3+ years of software engineering industry experience and with storage technologies like DynamoDB, Redis, Open Search etc
- Experience working with kubernetes and container technologies (e.g. Docker, cri-o, etc)
- Familiar with a cloud-based environments such as AWS/GCP/Azure
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our dynamic Streaming Compute Team
- In this role, you'll be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining our low latency and high throughput systems, which are critical to almost all ML models at Lyft
- Our systems are used to generate, store and serve ML features for training and inference for teams like payments fraud, driver and rider incentives, mapping etc
- We also leverage our vector store to empower other use-cases using LLMs
- As a Software Engineer, with your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the platform offerings
- Your work will have a major impact on several areas of the business
- Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain scalable and robust systems to support ML feature storage and retrieval
- Work with technologies such as Redis, dynamoDB, OpenSearch etc. to enhance our data platform's capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate feature service solutions into the broader data architecture
- Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
- Collaborate with product org stakeholders to address and prioritize custom edge cases
- Help lead large projects from inception to positive execution
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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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
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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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