Software Engineer

Lyft

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On-site
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$149,240–$192,000 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $155k
This role $171k
$106k most similar roles pay here $201k

This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $130,620–$179,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $171k versus about $155k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company offering ride-hailing services across the US and Canada.

Lyft currently has 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,000–$185,000 across 22 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, you will join the team to design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate, and maintain both existing and new elements of systems and infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineers and partners in science and product to drive projects from inception through execution and launch. Your daily work involves writing well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code while participating in code reviews to ensure quality and share knowledge. You will build an extensible and scalable platform that powers secure detection and response capabilities across the security lifecycle, ensuring high availability for critical security monitoring and threat identification flows. The role requires experience with object-oriented programming, backend software development of large-scale distributed systems, and creating clear design documentation. This position focuses on solving technical challenges within the domain of security engineering and infrastructure reliability.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196000 from 2245 postings across 149 companies.

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