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Lyft

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Language Tooling

Lyft, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


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.The Backend Language Tooling Team is responsible for empowering product engineers to focus on delivering business value by establishing & implementing reliable, safe, efficient, secure standards for development across all of Lyft. We are heavy users of Python and Go, and own the language implementation ecosystem around builds, dependency management, and release flows.As an engineer on the Backend Language Tooling Team, you will be responsible for backend language implementation, execution environment, and dependency management for libraries and applications. You will partner with hundreds of engineers across the company to champion best practices, support and contribute to industry standard tooling, and meaningfully improve the experience of using backend languages at Lyft. Our goal is to provide a seamless development experience across all projects.Responsibilities

Drive the team's long term roadmap by setting technical direction and maintaining quality for a team of 5+ engineersOwn large multi-engineer initiatives from idea through successful executionWork with product engineering teams to understand their use cases and design and build systems to make them more productiveChampion best practices for building and deploying Python and Go services at scaleIntegrate industry standard tooling across Lyft such as code linters, static analyzers, type checkers, and auto-formatters.Collaborate with our partner teams to integrate our tooling into local development and CI workflowsAutomate large-scale code changes and dependency management to ensure our ecosystem stays current with new technologiesWrite well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable codeLevel up those around you with individual mentorship and teach others with tech talks and deep divesExperience

8+ years of software engineering industry experienceDeep experience with the Python and/or Go language ecosystem including dependency management, linting, and coding standardsStrong familiarity with container technology such as Docker and KubernetesTake pride in reducing technical debt; attention to small details and keeping code/configuration clean and maintainable is something you valueProven track record of setting technical direction for a team and successfully delivering valueValue root causing operational issues and implementing systemic solutions and automation to make sure they no longer happenBenefits

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance optionsMental health benefitsFamily building benefitsIn addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off401(k) plan to help save for your future18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligiblePre-tax commuter benefitsLyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership ProgramLyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action 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.Starting in September 2023, 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, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.The expected range of pay for this position in New York City is $180,000 - $215,000. 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.

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