Senior Software Engineer, Lyft
Developer Console
$144-180k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Open for applications
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$144-180k
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
- 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
- You have experience orchestrating platforms at scale with Terraform and/or Atlantis
- You have experience developing policy enforcement systems with Sentinel or Open Policy Agent
- 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++ for in large scale distributed systems
- Experience operating large scale infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
What the job involves
- Lyft’s Infrastructure engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for engineers to help us scale
- We are responsible for building the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, and efficient services
- We build standardized infrastructure that helps software developers move fast, while still providing them with the flexibility they need to innovate within their teams
- We are looking for an engineer to create an exceptional development experience for all of Lyft that will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering, and contribute directly to Lyft’s overall stability and productivity
- As an Senior Engineer on the Developer Console team in Infrastructure, you will be responsible for delivering critical, large scoped projects that will be used by all the software engineers at Lyft
- You will build and simplify infrastructure management for internal engineering teams through the Clutch platform and the systems that power it and help steward features and the platform that drives Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure as Code at Lyft, working cross functionally with product team stakeholders and other infrastructure leaders to deliver on our roadmap and longer term vision for the team
- Build and deploy an orchestration platform powered by Atlantis, creating Lyft specific extensions and supporting tools to manage our cloud infrastructure reliably
- Design, build and maintain tooling to improve efficiency and reliability of our orchestration platform, enabling our users to provision infrastructure safely
- Partner with our adjacent Infrastructure engineering teams to understand their use cases, debug problems, and design and build scalable infrastructure to solve for their needs
- Build and develop partnerships across the organization to provide great customer experience
- Drive incident responses to conclusion by mentoring the team on operational best practice and identifying long-term systemic fixes
- Develop and improve testing and automation processes in order to reduce operational burden
- Work with and contribute back to open source communities (Atlantis, Terraform) to build infrastructure that scales
- Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams 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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