Staff Software Engineer, Lyft
Networking
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience building infrastructure technologies in cloud environments
- Prior experience in an infrastructure setting working with highly available production systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud providers such as AWS/GCP
- Proven track record of designing, implementing and shipping systems in large-scale environments
- Experience working across teams and functions, contributing to team roadmap, and mentoring other engineers
- Experience with Linux operating systems, DNS, load balancing, HTTP/gRPC protocols
- Experience in building distributed or cloud based networking management systems
- Experience with AWS networking concepts such as VPC, NLB, subnets
- Experience operating service proxies such as Envoy or Nginx, or service mesh technologies such as Istio, Cilium
What the job involves
- The Networking Team enables a performant, secure, reliable, and observable networking platform
- Our developers trust the infrastructure layer is robust, and can focus on safely building their applications on top of our platform
- We are seeking experienced software engineers to develop and operate best-in-class service mesh solutions built on Kubernetes and AWS
- Our team is responsible for building a performant, secure, and cost effective networking platform to handle Lyft’s evergrowing scale
- You will join our dynamic team to manage our edge and service proxy solution to provide the best experience for our customers
- Develop and maintain our service mesh and edge routing capabilities
- Scale our Kubernetes platform running on AWS using Envoy Proxy
- Optimize load balancing algorithms and scaling decisions on our control and data planes
- Operationalize observability metrics that improve visibility, detection and resolution
- Debug production level incidents various layers of our stack across services and platforms
- Contribute to our long term roadmap, collaborating with cross functional teams and stakeholders
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company 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 new 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
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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