Software Engineer, Observability

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
108K-135K Annually
Mid level
Transportation
The Role
Operate, maintain, and improve Lyft's logging and metrics infrastructure. Build tooling to automate platform operations, define SLOs, monitor metrics, support incident response and on-call rotations, collaborate with engineering teams on observability, document processes, and automate repetitive tasks to improve reliability and scalability of distributed systems.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 an Observability team member, you are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our logging and metrics infrastructure. You ensure all teams at Lyft are aware of the operational health of their products by monitoring system availability and take a holistic view of our platform performance. You build software and platforms to automate infrastructure platform operations and management. By measuring and monitoring our operations you find opportunities to improve our systems in order to push our platform forward. You provide our partners with the support they need to help them build robust large scale distributed systems.
We count on the reliability of our infrastructure to empower Lyft teams to provide our customers rich experiences that are highly available with rock solid performance to ensure our transportation platform continues to connect people and places. As we grow our team, we are seeking experienced Infrastructure Engineer to ensure that as our Infrastructure continues to scale, our platform continues to provide an essential and dependable service that transports millions of people every day. Specifically we are searching for someone who brings fresh perspectives, enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams in order to continually improve our products and services for our customers.

Responsibilities:
  • Maintain, improve, and develop tooling and systems that enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our platform.
  • Assist engineering teams in defining service-level objectives (SLOs) and provide the necessary tooling to monitor and balance feature development speed and reliability.
  • Maintain and analyze metrics from operating systems, control planes, and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to enhance Lyft's observability and meet developers' needs, ensuring alignment with design and production readiness reviews, platform management, and capacity planning.
  • Keep and maintain our documentation at a world-class level by documenting infrastructure operations processes and insights.
  • Identifying repeatable actions, and automating repetitive tasks.
  • Participate in our team's on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and support other teams to mitigate customer-impacting events.
Experience:
  • 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.
  • Proficiency in creating production-ready code 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 in building and maintaining observability infrastructure to support robust monitoring and analysis.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and managing multi-cluster environments in production settings.
  • Proven track record with modern Observability stack, including proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and other open-source tracing and alerting frameworks.
Benefits:
  • Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • Child care and pet benefits
  • Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
  • RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
  • In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
  • Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
  • Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $108,000 - CAD $135,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of experience in software development, automation, and systems engineering
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related discipline
  • Proficiency in creating production-ready code in Go or Python
  • Experience operating infrastructure in public cloud environments such as AWS
  • Experience building and maintaining observability infrastructure for monitoring and analysis
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and managing multi-cluster production environments
  • Proven experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and open-source tracing/alerting frameworks
  • Participation in on-call rotations and incident response to mitigate customer-impacting events

Lyft Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lyft and has not been reviewed or approved by Lyft.

  • Healthcare Strength Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is provided for corporate employees, with added access to One Medical and mental‑health support for employees and dependents. Benefits materials also highlight wellness programs alongside these core plans.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave of 18 weeks is offered for biological, adoptive, and foster parents, and family‑building and fertility support are included. These provisions are consistently described as a standout element of the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Salaried U.S. employees have unlimited PTO, and hourly employees receive a defined bank of paid time off plus observed holidays. Some reports also note sabbatical eligibility after tenure.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
22,282 Employees

What We Do

Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.

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