Lyft

Software Engineer, Observability

Lyft$108K — $135K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in software development, automation, and systems engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Proficient in high-level programming languages like Go or Python.
  • Experience managing infrastructure in public cloud environments, especially AWS.
  • Skilled in building and maintaining observability infrastructure for monitoring and analysis.
  • Strong familiarity with Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Proven expertise with modern observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and enhance tooling and systems for platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Assist engineering teams in defining service-level objectives (SLOs) with necessary monitoring tools.
  • Analyze metrics for fault detection and performance improvement across systems and applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for improved observability and alignment in operations.
  • Document infrastructure operations processes and insights to maintain high-quality records.
  • Automate repetitive tasks by identifying and implementing repeatable actions.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and support incident responses to reduce customer-impacting events.

Benefits

  • Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, and disability benefits.
  • Mental health support and family building benefits.
  • Child care and pet benefits available.
  • Access to a Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account.
  • Company-matched RRSP plan for future savings.
  • Flexible paid time off policy allowing as much time as needed with manager approval.
  • 18 weeks paid time off for new parents, including biological, adoptive, and foster.
  • Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
Full Job Description
As an Observability team member, you are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our logging and metrics infrastructure. You ensure all teams at Lyft are aware of the operational health of their products by monitoring system availability and take a holistic view of our platform performance. You build software and platforms to automate infrastructure platform operations and management. By measuring and monitoring our operations you find opportunities to improve our systems in order to push our platform forward. You provide our partners with the support they need to help them build robust large scale distributed systems.

We count on the reliability of our infrastructure to empower Lyft teams to provide our customers rich experiences that are highly available with rock solid performance to ensure our transportation platform continues to connect people and places. As we grow our team, we are seeking experienced Infrastructure Engineer to ensure that as our Infrastructure continues to scale, our platform continues to provide an essential and dependable service that transports millions of people every day. Specifically we are searching for someone who brings fresh perspectives, enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams in order to continually improve our products and services for our customers.
Responsibilities:
  • Maintain, improve, and develop tooling and systems that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our platform.
  • Assist engineering teams in defining service-level objectives (SLOs) and provide the necessary tooling to monitor and balance feature development speed and reliability.
  • Maintain and analyze metrics from operating systems, control planes, and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to enhance Lyft's observability and meet developers' needs, ensuring alignment with design and production readiness reviews, platform management, and capacity planning.
  • Keep and maintain our documentation at a world-class level by documenting infrastructure operations processes and insights.
  • Identifying repeatable actions, and automating repetitive tasks.
  • Participate in our team's on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events.
Experience:
  • 3+ years of experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation, and systems engineering.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a relevant discipline.
  • Proficiency in creating production-ready code in one or more high-level languages, such as Go or Python.
  • Experience operating infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS, including familiarity with Managed Services.
  • Experience in building and maintaining observability infrastructure to support robust monitoring and analysis.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and managing multi-cluster environments in production settings.
  • Proven track record with modern Observability stack, including proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and other open-source tracing and alerting frameworks.
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 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.

About Lyft

Lyft is a transportation network company that was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates a mobile app that allows users to request rides from nearby drivers. Lyft provides ride-hailing services in the United States and Canada, and it has expanded into other transportation services, such as bike-sharing and scooter-sharing. The company is known for its pink mustache logo, which was replaced by a glowing dashboard mustache in 2015. Lyft went public in March 2019.
Learn more about Lyft
Size
4,453 employees
Market Cap
$3.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.7 billion
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
+56.4%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
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