Software Engineer, Async Platform

Visa Hunt; Toronto; On-site; CAD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health & dental

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care & pet benefits

Lyft Health Care Savings Account

RRSP plan with company match

Generous paid time off

Paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Lyft seeks a senior infrastructure software engineer to help maintain a scalable, asynchronous platform in a hybrid in-office role in Toronto. You will design, deploy, and improve tooling to boost reliability, performance, and observability across cloud environments.

The role requires 5+ years in software development, automation, or systems engineering, with Go or Python, and experience with AWS/GCP/Azure and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development, automation or systems engineering.
• Experience building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to reduce technical debt and maintain clean code.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze metrics from OS, control planes, and apps to aid fault detection and performance.
• Design, develop, and deploy tooling to improve reliability, scalability and efficiency.
• Balance feature speed with reliability and SLAs.
• Operate and improve infrastructure using best practices and tools.
• Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and cross-team ceremonies.
• Document operations processes and automate repetitive tasks.
• Join on-call rotations and respond to incidents.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

SQS

Kafka

Kinesis

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

We are building and maintaining a highly scalable asynchronous platform that empowers our organization to handle critical business cases. As a software engineering team, our mission is to create robust and innovative solutions that drive the success of our business and deliver unparalleled value to our customers.

We adopt Infrastructure as Code practice to automate the provisioning and configuration of our resources, which helps reduce manual configuration and improve consistency.

Our team culture is built on collaboration, open communication, and a supportive environment where each member’s ideas are valued and contributions are recognized. We believe in the importance of fostering a positive workplace culture that inspires innovation and creativity.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Experience:

• 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
• Experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks. Knowledge with SQS, Kafka and Kinesis is a bonus.
• Experience developing in Go, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience working with a cloud-based environments such as AWS/GCP/Azure
• Take pride in reducing technical debt; you pay attention to small details, and you value keeping code/configuration clean and maintainable.

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft’s flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule – Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.