Software Engineer, Lyft
Foundational Infrastructure, Storage
CA$108-135k
3+ days a week in office
Ride sharing company
Job no longer available
Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$108-135k
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
- Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go or Python
- Hands-on experience operating large-scale infrastructure in a public cloud (preferably AWS)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Familiarity with production level microservice architecture and technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience identifying and remediating performance bottlenecks in distributed systems
Desirable
- Experience operating and scaling production-level storage infrastructure
- Experience with AWS storage tools such as DynamoDB, MSK, RDS, S3 & OpenSearch
- Prior experience building internal storage abstractions/tools
What the job involves
- The Storage team's mission is to empower efficient and cost-effective data management through seamless user experience, while ensuring compliance, modernization, and optimization of Lyft's critical storage infrastructure.
- We work closely with other Foundational Infrastructure teams (Compute & Networking) to achieve these goals. The storage team owns and leverages AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, MSK, RDS, S3 amongst others to support Lyft’s scale and storage needs
- Design, develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our storage infrastructure
- 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 automate repetitive tasks
- Participate in our team’s on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and collaborate with other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events
Our take
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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