Lyft

Software Engineer, Observability

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2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, improve, and develop tooling and systems that enhance platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Help engineering teams define service-level objectives and provide tooling to balance feature delivery speed with reliability.
  • Maintain and analyze operating system, control plane, and application metrics for fault detection and performance improvement.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on observability, developer needs, design and production readiness reviews, platform management, and capacity planning.
  • Document infrastructure operations processes and insights.
  • Identify repeatable actions and automate repetitive tasks.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and help mitigate customer-impacting events.

Requirements

  • At least 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.
  • Production-ready coding experience 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 building and maintaining observability infrastructure for robust monitoring and analysis.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and managing multi-cluster production environments.
  • Proficiency with modern observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and open-source tracing and alerting frameworks.

Benefits

  • Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, mental health benefits, family-building benefits, child care and pet benefits, and a company-funded Health Care Savings Account.
  • RRSP plan with company match, flexible paid time off for salaried employees, and paid parental leave of up to 18 weeks.
  • Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
  • Hybrid in-office schedule requiring at least three days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with up to four weeks per year working from anywhere.

Tech Stack

AWSGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPython

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Lyft

About Lyft

10,000+ employees

Lyft is a NASDAQ-listed transportation marketplace that connects riders with drivers and offers bike and scooter rentals in one app. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates across the U.S. and parts of Canada. Its revenue comes from service fees on rides and rentals, enterprise programs, and consumer subscriptions such as Lyft Pink.

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