About the Job
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.
Our Infrastructure team is passionate about building software to solve problems at massive scale. We do this often, and when we believe our solution is worth sharing with the community, such as Envoy Proxy, we open source our ideas for the benefit of others.
As a Infrastructure Engineer at Lyft, you will run our Production Infrastructure by monitoring system availability and take a holistic view of our platform health. You will build software and platforms to automate infrastructure platform operations and management. By measuring and monitoring our operations you will ...
Key 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
5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
Ability to create production ready code in one or more high level languages, such as Golang, Python
Prior experience with data streaming, storage and management, particularly DynamoDB, Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, S3, GraphQL, Flink, Hive
Experience operating large scale infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS
Prior infra experience with infra tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc preferably in an AWS context)
Experience identifying nascent problems, performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement and developing and executing plans to mitigate them
Qualifications
Experience:
5 years experience
