Infrastructure Engineer, Lyft
Observability
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- As we grow our team, we are seeking experienced Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that as our Infrastructure continues to scale, our platform continues to provide an essential and dependable service that transports millions of people every day
- We are searching for someone who brings fresh perspectives, enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams in order to continually improve our products and services for our customers
- 3+ years of experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation, and systems engineering
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a relevant discipline
- Proficiency in creating production-ready code in one or more high-level languages, such as Go or Python
- Experience operating infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS, including familiarity with Managed Services
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and managing multi-cluster environments in production settings
- Experience using monitoring, alerting, and logging systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and Telegraph
What the job involves
- As an Observability team member, you are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our logging and metrics infrastructure
- You ensure all teams at Lyft are aware of the operational health of their products by monitoring system availability and take a holistic view of our platform performance
- You build software and platforms to automate infrastructure platform operations and management
- By measuring and monitoring our operations you find opportunities to improve our systems in order to push our platform forward
- You provide our partners with the support they need to help them build robust large scale distributed systems
- Maintain and analyze metrics from operating systems, control planes, and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement
- Maintain, improve, and develop tooling and systems that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our platform
- Assist engineering teams in defining service-level objectives (SLOs) and provide the necessary tooling to monitor and balance feature development speed and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to enhance Lyft's observability and meet developers' needs, ensuring alignment with design and production readiness reviews, platform management, and capacity planning
- Keep and maintain our documentation at a world-class level by documenting infrastructure operations processes and insights
- Participate in our team's on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events
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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