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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft’s Infrastructure team is passionate about building software to solve problems at massive scale. We are growing rapidly and looking for engineers to help us scale. Our team is responsible for building the foundational systems that engineers rely on to develop stable, scalable, and efficient services. We provide standardized infrastructure that enables software developers to move fast while maintaining the flexibility they need to innovate within their teams. We are seeking engineers to create an exceptional development experience across Lyft, contributing directly to the company’s stability and productivity.

Key traits for success in this role include a passion for improving developer experience, a quick learning ability, a collaborative mindset, and an eagerness to drive initiatives both within and across teams. You'll be joining a small, close-knit team of passionate and supportive colleagues.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team at Lyft, you will shape and improve internal developer workflows and infrastructure, collaborating across teams to identify bottlenecks and design scalable solutions. Our team accelerates key processes such as local development, continuous integration, code review, testing, and artifact management. We directly impact every engineer at Lyft by reducing friction, integrating AI-powered automation, and ensuring a seamless developer experience. Your work will make development at Lyft faster, more reliable, and more enjoyable.

• Design, build, and optimize developer tools and infrastructure to streamline local development, source code management, CI, and code review, helping engineers ship high-quality code faster.
• Partner with adjacent Infrastructure engineering teams to understand their use cases, debug problems, and design scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
• Build and develop partnerships across the organization to enhance the developer experience.
• Lead incident responses, mentor the team on operational best practices, and implement long-term systemic fixes.
• Develop and improve testing and automation processes to reduce operational burden.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams in mitigating customer-impacting events.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, automation, and systems engineering.
• Experience with GitHub repository management, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer tooling.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies (e.g., Docker, cri-o) at scale.
• Proven ability to design, build, and improve team-owned components.
• Proficiency in one or more high-level languages, such as Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++, for large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to write clear, scalable design documentation.
• Experience working in developer experience is a plus.
• Bonus: Experience leveraging AI to enhance developer productivity, such as AI-assisted code completion and intelligent test generation.

• 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 proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. 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 now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. 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 $136,000-187,000 CAD. 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.