Senior Async Platform Engineer — Hybrid (Go/Python, AWS)

Lyft; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 117,760 - 147,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care and pet benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off - holidays and vacation

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Lyft credits

Lyft Pink membership

Job summary

Lyft is seeking a software and infrastructure engineer in Seattle to build and scale an asynchronous platform. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and cross‑functional collaboration, with a strong focus on reducing technical debt and maintaining clean code and configurations.

The team operates in a hybrid in‑office model, with 3 days per week in the office and flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering.

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.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

SQS

Kafka

Kinesis

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Lyft is seeking a software and infrastructure engineer in Seattle to build and scale an asynchronous platform. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and cross‑functional collaboration, with a strong focus on reducing technical debt and maintaining clean code and configurations.

The team operates in a hybrid in‑office model, with 3 days per week in the office and flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.