Software Engineer
This listing is for a Software Engineer role at Lyft, in Seattle, WA, United States. It is listed as a full-time position with hybrid working.
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This listing is for a Software Engineer role at Lyft, in Seattle, WA, United States. It is listed as a full-time position with hybrid working.
Reading the advert, the employer asks for 2+ years of experience.
The listing gives the pay as $149,240 - $192,000/year.
Benefits mentioned in the advert: health insurance, pension or retirement plan, paid time off, parental leave and bonus.
The advert does not mention visa sponsorship. If you would move to United States for this job, check the official work permit route first (DGJ Insight lists it where we have it).
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Greenhouse on Nov 1, 2026.
- Employer
- Lyft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Work mode
- hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $149,240 - $192,000/year
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Found
- Nov 1, 2026 on Greenhouse
- Employer text
- 485 words, about 2 min to read
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This job's listed pay is 96% above the benchmark.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
- H-1B specialty occupation: Employer petition, bachelor's degree or higher in the specialty; annual cap and lottery
- L-1 intracompany transferee: Employees of a related company abroad transferring to a US office
- O-1 extraordinary ability: Evidence of extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
Official routes: USCIS
About the role
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
01Responsibilities
- 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, to launch.
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
- Build an extensible and scalable platform that powers secure detection and response capabilities across the security lifecycle.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of detection engineering systems to support critical security monitoring and threat identification flows.
02Experience
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 2 years of pre- or post-academic experience in job offered, software development, or related occupation.
- Experience with Object-oriented programming.
- Experience writing clear, scalable, and clear design documentation.
- Experience with backend software development of large-scale distributed systems.
03Benefits
- 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 workplace that fosters belonging. 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, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. 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 Seattle area is $149,240 - $192,000/year. 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. #LI-DNI
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