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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Lyft Inc
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $149,240.0 - $192,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Quality, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, System Availability, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/software-engineer-509977715

## About the Role

* Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
 * 2 years of pre- or post-academic experience in job offered, software development, or related occupation.
 * Experience with Object-oriented programming.
 * Experience writing clear, scalable, and clear design documentation.
 * Experience with backend software development of large-scale distributed systems.

## Description

* Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our systems and infrastructure.
 * Collaborate with engineers and partners in science & product to drive projects from inception, specification, execution, to launch.
 * Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
 * Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
 * Build an extensible and scalable platform that powers secure detection and response capabilities across the security lifecycle.
 * Ensure high availability and reliability of detection engineering systems to support critical security monitoring and threat identification flows.