Who you are

- 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering

- Ability to create production ready code in one or more high level languages, such as Golang, Python

- Prior experience with data streaming, storage and management, particularly DynamoDB, Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, S3, GraphQL, Flink, Hive

- Experience operating large scale infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS

- Prior infra experience with infra tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc preferably in an AWS context)

- Experience identifying nascent problems, performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement and developing and executing plans to mitigate them

What the job involves

- Data Pipelines is at the heart of all critical data flowing through Lyft supporting hundreds of services that impact millions of drivers and passengers every day. Our team’s mission is to empower Lyft engineers to self-serve in building and maintaining data pipelines as needed to support products that deliver the world’s best transportation experience. We leverage a variety of technologies to store, stream and manage data making it available to our internal customers

- Maintain and analyze metrics from; operating systems; control planes; and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement

- Design,



develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our platform

- Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives

- Operate and improve our Infrastructure using industry best practices and tools

- Participate in design and production readiness reviews, platform management and capacity planning ceremonies with cross-functional teams

- Document Infrastructure operations process and insights, identify repeatable actions and ruthlessly automate repetitive tasks

- Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events

Benefits

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options

- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

- 401(k) plan to help save for your future

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

- Pre-tax commuter benefits

- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test recent benefits of our Ridership Program

- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Lyft
📍 Toronto