Remote Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Lyft's Data Platform team as a highly skilled Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data storage solutions, collaborate with stakeholders, and troubleshoot platform issues.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software/data engineering, data architecture, or a related field
• Strong programming skills in at least one language: Java, Scala, Python, or Go
• Experience with SQL and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with Apache Big Data frameworks such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, etc
• Proficiency in AWS cloud services
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and data storage/retrieval

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data storage solutions to support diverse data processing needs
• Optimize and scale the platform to accommodate increasing data volumes and user requests
• Improve data storage, retrieval, query performance, and overall system performance
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver tailored solutions
• Work with engineering teams to ensure data pipelines, analytics tools, ETL processes, and other systems are properly integrated with the Lyft Data Platform
• Troubleshoot and resolve data platform issues in a timely manner
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform availability and reliability
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and other collaborative team activities to maintain high-quality standards
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and tools to enhance the data platform
• Contribute to platform documentation, knowledge sharing, and best practice development

Benefits

• Professional and stable working environment
• 28 calendar days for vacation and up to 5 paid days off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits