Job brief: Senior Software Engineer, Forecasting & Real-Time Optimization

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Lyft's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens app.careerpuck.com, the address Lyft's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Seattle, WA · San Francisco Office · Seattle Office
• Posted: 2026-11-09

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What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience, including building and operating backend or data systems in production
• Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role.

Conditions

• The work involves forecasting both rider demand and driver supply as they shift with traffic, holidays, and major events, and keeping systems correct and fast during the peaks whe…
• Take part in on-call, lead post-incident investigations, and drive action items to completion.
• Experience designing and leading delivery of large-scale distributed systems, and owning their reliability through monitoring, on-call, and incident response
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

Main duties

• Lead projects end to end: Drive multi-engineer projects from proposal and technical design through launch. Break work into milestones, align dependencies wit…
• Architect ML systems: Design and evolve streaming feature pipelines, training and inference workflows, and signal serving, and lead design reviews with atten…
• Partner with science to ship: Partner with scientists to design/productionize ML models. Build the rollout tooling (shadow, canary, rollback) and the backtes…
• Own signal contracts: Define and maintain the interfaces, data contracts, and SLAs between forecasting signals and downstream consumers such as Dynamic Prici…
• Operate what you build: Monitor system health (latency, freshness, error rates) and signal quality (accuracy, bias, drift), and prepare systems for peak even…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in Seattle, WA: $222k a year (96 listings, 12 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Lyft's 30 open listings, 0% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Lyft hires

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