Senior Backend and Data Engineer, Telematics

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.

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our Telematics team. At Lyft, Telematics data is used to make Lyft safer by reducing accident risk, which in turn also makes Lyft more affordable for riders and a better way to earn a living for drivers. The Telematics team acts as a platform team that processes vast amounts of high-frequency ride data, serving our Telematics ML models (e.g. harsh braking, harsh acceleration, etc.) and deriving insights for partner teams.

Our technology stack runs on AWS, Kubernetes, Spark and Apache Airflow. In this role, you will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering (mobile, server and data), machine learning and data science, actuarial science on building industry-leading innovations that make Lyft safer by reducing the frequency and severity of accidents on the platform.

If you are a seasoned engineer with a passion for innovation, high-volume data pipelines, microservices, working in cross-disciplinary environments and possess the skills to ensure the ongoing maintenance and improvement of services, you will thrive on our team!

You can read about some of the products that the Telematics powers in this blog post: https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyfts-impact-on-road-safety

Responsibilities:

• Be a champion of the team’s safety and affordability mission by serving as a reliable source of risk insights for other teams at the company
• Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability.
• Work cross-functionally with Data Scientists to productionize models to derive safety insights from Telematics data, driving the team’s industry-leading innovation in this space
• Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.
• Take a lead role in the ongoing maintenance of our Telematics systems, ensuring their stability and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine the roadmap for Telematics projects.
• Utilize your expertise in Python, AWS, Spark, SQL, etc. to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events

Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience in backend software development of large-scale distributed systems
• Experience and/or interest in running large batch processing jobs with Spark or other large scale compute architectures
• Experience and/or interest in Library development
• Experience and/or interest in serving, versioning, monitoring ML models in production environments
• Experience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environment
• Experience with S3, Spark, Presto, Parquet
• You're a great communicator, and can advocate for your proposals while also empathizing with your cross-functional teammates' goals and priorities
• You collaborate well with a geographically distributed team

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account