Data Engineer, Pricing
About The Position
Pricing is at the core of Lyft’s business, driving revenue, balancing supply and demand, and shaping user experience through real-time and strategic decisions. The Pricing team builds and maintains the systems that determine what a ride should cost—incorporating demand forecasts, marketplace signals, promotions, cost models, and more. As a Data Engineer on the Pricing team, you will help build the data foundation that powers Lyft’s pricing strategies. You will architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to support real-time pricing, experimentation, analytics, and modeling. Your work will enable integration with partner teams and allow stakeholders across Engineering, Data Science, and Product to make data-informed decisions that directly impact Lyft’s growth and profitability. Our technology stack is based on the latest technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes and Apache Airflow. You will work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues from software engineering, machine learning and data science on projects that directly impact millions of riders and drivers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience
- Strong experience with Spark
- Experience with Hadoop (or similar) Ecosystem, S3, DynamoDB, MapReduce, Yarn, HDFS, Hive, Spark, Presto, Pig, HBase, Parquet
- Strong skills in a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash)
- Good understanding of SQL Engine and able to conduct advanced performance tuning
- Proficient in at least one of the SQL languages (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SqlServer, Oracle)
- Experience with workflow management tools (Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban, UC4)
- Comfortable working directly with data and business partners to bridge Lyft’s business goals with data engineering
Responsibilities
- Owner of the pricing data pipeline, responsible for scaling up data processing flow to meet the rapid data growth at Lyft
- Evolve data model and data schema based on business and engineering needs
- Implement systems tracking data quality and consistency
- Develop tools supporting self-service data pipeline management (ETL)
- SQL and MapReduce job tuning to improve data processing performance
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Unblock, support and communicate with internal & external partners to achieve results
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
- RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
- Flexible paid time off policy for salaried team members
- 15 days paid time off for hourly team members, with an additional day for each year of service
- 18 weeks of paid time off for new parents (biological, adoptive, and foster)
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
