At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. Lyft needs experienced engineers from a breadth of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched. Lyft is seeking an expert software engineer to join the Driver team. This team is responsible for helping us increase the number of drivers on the Lyft platform, ensuring that those drivers are delivering a high quality experience for passengers, while reducing the amount of time required between initial sign-up and actually driving. We are continuously evaluating and iterating in order to deliver phenomenal experiences for our drivers. Our Driver team is constantly innovating and incorporating cutting edge technologies to simplify and enrich the lives of our drivers. If you are excited about modern technologies and want to help build better products for our drivers, this is the role for you! **Responsibilities:** + Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure + Collaborate with engineers and partners in science & product to drive projects from inception, specification, execution, or to launch + Build and operate large-scale distributed systems (Beam, Flink, Kafka, etc.) + Design and own the way real-time data is consumed, stored, and shared with the entirety of Lyft + Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code + Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, including Open-Source projects + Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices **Experience:** + 5+ years of software engineering industry experience + Experience with object-oriented programming + Experience or exposure to distributed systems + Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL + Ability to thrive in a startup environment + Ability to write thorough, scalable and clear design documentation + Designs, builds and improves a set of team owned components **Benefits:** + 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 to help save for your future + 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 + Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program _Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law._ _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. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid_ _The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $144,000-$198,000 USD. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process._