10 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize service mesh, ingress/egress infrastructure, edge routing, and custom control planes using Envoy Proxy and AWS.
- Enhance load-balancing algorithms, service discovery, and dynamic scaling across high-concurrency data and control planes running on Kubernetes.
- Operationalize telemetry, metrics, and distributed tracing to improve detection and resolution of networking-stack incidents.
- Lead complex production investigations spanning kernel parameters, cloud VPC network layers, DNS, and distributed microservice protocols.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture, RFC reviews, technical vision, incident post-mortems, incident response, and mentoring.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of production systems experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure and networking platforms.
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, TCP/IP, DNS, gRPC, HTTP/2, load balancing, and AWS networking architecture including VPCs, NLBs, subnets, and transit gateways.
- Hands-on experience building or operating large-scale proxy and service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or Nginx.
- Strong experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on public cloud providers such as AWS or GCP using Terraform.
- Demonstrated ability to isolate and debug complex, multilayered system failures under high-throughput conditions.
Benefits
- Extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, mental health benefits, family-building benefits, child care benefits, and pet benefits.
- Lyft-funded Health Care Savings Account and RRSP plan with company match.
- Flexible paid time off for salaried team members, while hourly team members receive 15 paid days off plus an additional day per year of service.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave through a top-up plan for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits.
- Hybrid in-office schedule requiring at least 3 days per week, including Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
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About Lyft
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.