Computer Engineer jobs in United States

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect people through transportation. Our Infrastructure organization builds scalable platforms that power the experience of millions of riders and drivers. From open-sourcing tools like Envoy Proxy to scaling data platforms, we tackle complex engineering problems at massive scale.

As a Software Engineer on the Storage team, you’ll collaborate to design and build scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient storage solutions powering Lyft’s core services. You’ll work with a wide range of AWS-native tools and internal platforms to optimize performance and enable self-serve capabilities for data and infrastructure users.

We’re excited to meet engineers who are passionate about building reliable, user-friendly infrastructure—whatever your background, we encourage you to apply.

The Storage team's mission is to empower efficient and cost-effective data management through seamless user experience, while ensuring compliance, modernization, and optimization of Lyft's critical storage infrastructure. We work closely with other Foundational Infrastructure teams (Compute & Networking) to achieve these goals. The storage team owns and leverages AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, MSK, RDS, S3 amongst others to support Lyft’s scale and storage needs.

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our storage infrastructure
• 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 automate repetitive tasks
• Participate in our team’s on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and collaborate with other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events

• 2+ years of experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go or Python
• Hands-on experience operating large-scale infrastructure in a public cloud (preferably AWS)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Familiarity with production level microservice architecture and technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience identifying and remediating performance bottlenecks in distributed systems

• • Experience operating and scaling production-level storage infrastructure
  • Experience with AWS storage tools such as DynamoDB, MSK, RDS, S3 & OpenSearch
  • Prior experience building internal storage abstractions/tools

• 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 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

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. 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. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.