Staff Software Engineer - Developer Environments, Infrastructure

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

The Developer Environments team’s main objective is to build the best tools and platforms to enable Lyft developers to reliably and quickly test changes in a local & integrated environment. We also own mission-critical testing platforms at Lyft that ensure that Lyft systems and architecture can handle the load of customer demand during peak events like New Year's Eve, as well as catching defects in code before they reach production. Our systems are used Lyft-wide to test new features, catch regressions and generate traffic through a large-scale ride simulator. Our team’s work directly impacts how rapidly and successfully Lyft engineers can ship their features.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Environments team, you will be responsible for delivering critical, large scoped projects that will be used by all the software engineers at Lyft. Using your experience, you will drive technical solutions that can help our engineers reliably test their code and identify resiliency gaps in the system well before it can have a customer impact.

We are looking for candidates who are self-starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs. The candidate should be able to dive deep into any problems with lots of ambiguity and build a technical solution to solve it. They should be willing to work closely with our product teams to gather requirements and take end to end ownership of projects & features and drive it from design to implementation.

Read more about some of the projects this team has worked on:

• https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-1-a2f5d9a77813
• https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-2-optimizing-for-fast-local-development-9f27a98b47ee
• https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-3-extending-our-envoy-mesh-with-staging-fdaafafca82f
• Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
• How Lyft uses load testing to ensure reliable service during peak events

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of our testing platform
• Help establish a roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Analyze our internal systems and processes and locate areas for improvement/automation
• Collaborate with product org stakeholders to address and prioritize custom edge cases
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices
• Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
• Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results

Experience:

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience in distributed systems
• Experience working with Python and/or Go is a plus
• Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation
• Design, build and improve a set of team owned components
• Experience Kubernetes and container technologies (e.g. Docker, cri-o, etc) at scale
• Experience working in the developer experience or testing space is a plus

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

Lyft is an equal opp