Infrastructure Engineer, Lyft
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
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
- 3+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or relevant discipline
- Ability to create production ready code in one or more high level languages, such as Go Lang, Python, Rust and C/C++
- Experience operating large scale infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
- Experience operating and monitoring Kubernetes and Envoy Proxy in large Production environment
- Experience with distributed storage technologies such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora and distributed configuration systems such as Zookeeper and etcd
- Experience using monitoring, alerting and logging systems at massive-scale, such as Prometheus, Telegraph and M3
- Experience identifying nascent problems, performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement and developing and executing plans to mitigate them
What the job involves
- He Datastores and Persistence teams are responsible for managing data in transit and at rest for all Lyft services
- Our persistence storage systems are responsible for safely reading and writing petabytes each month
- The teams manage and maintain our cloud storage services including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, ElasticCache and ZooKeeper to ensure that all Lyft services are able to access and store information reliably and efficiently
- We are also responsible for ensuring that data in transit is accessible, providing data pipelines for our customers to subscribe to in order to respond in real time to defined events
- This infrastructure is built upon a Kafka foundation with Lyft customized tooling added to support our specific needs
- Our infrastructure has been built by Lyft to reliably store and stream billions of unique events each day
- You will be part of a team that continuously monitors and tunes these systems in order to ensure that we can maintain a high level of service for our teams across the company
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
Articles
Founders
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 97 more jobs at Lyft