Software Engineer, Lyft Ads

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.

Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers from a scope of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our riders and drivers.

As a Software Engineer for Lyft Media - you will work on one of Lyft’s newest lines of business focused on building the world’s largest transportation media network. We build products that allow brands to engage with our unique audience throughout their transportation journeys. For this role we are seeking software engineers who are passionate about backend and data engineering. You will join our Ad Infra Engineering team and contribute to building the systems and pipelines powering our ad-serving and measurement platform. We work on technologies that let brands engage with our unique audience throughout their transportation journeys. This role is a great opportunity for an early-career engineer to gain experience working with distributed backend systems and large-scale data workflows, collaborating closely with product, analytics, and data science teams.

Why Lyft Media?

• Be part of a high-impact team building the foundations of Lyft’s advertising infra
• Gain experience working with complex systems at scale, backed by mentorship and growth opportunities.
• Join a supportive, inclusive environment focused on engineering excellence and business impact.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend systems that support real-time ad serving, campaign management, and reporting.
• Design and implement scalable data models to support analytics, targeting, and measurement use cases.
• Build and maintain data pipelines that handle ingestion, transformation, and distribution of large volumes of advertising data.
• Work with orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow) to schedule and monitor reliable, production-grade data workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to integrate internal and third-party systems via APIs and batch data feeds.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices (CI/CD, observability, code reviews).
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews with an emphasis on performance and reliability.
• Learn and grow through mentorship, documentation, and regular team collaboration.
  
  

Experience:

• BSc/MSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience
• 3 years of industry experience in backend or data engineering roles
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Good understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and database design (SQL and NoSQL).
• Exposure to orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) and data distribution technologies (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery, DynamoDB).
• Experience with Linux.

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 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 New York City area is $128,000 - $160,000. 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.

Total compensation is dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.