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.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality. As a member of Level 5, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and thereby revolutionize transportation.
Developing a network for autonomous vehicle is a complicated prospect. We’re looking for network engineers to help build the next generation network for Lyft Level 5. You will be a bridge between our hardware and software teams, responsible for building the data centers, edge pops, cloud interconnections. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, safety-critical environment and you’re great at creating solutions given minimal detail beyond complicated requirements, you might be the person we’re looking for!
Lyft is searching for a seasoned Network Engineer who will be responsible for helping to build and maintain the internal systems and networks for Lyft’s growing corporate IT organization. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with supporting complex heterogeneous environments in a fast-paced, high growth setting.
You are someone who asks questions, is confident in not knowing everything, and would rather collaborate with others than go it alone. You are crisp and detail oriented, but able to work outside of the boundaries when necessary. On top of your proven history of success, you have a passion for technology and, like us, you value hard work and fun in equal measure.
Responsibilities:
- You will keep the production network for Lyft Level 5 running and scalable
- You will work with our various internal teams to build and operate a highly available, high-performance infrastructure
- You will design and deploy the production network and data center infrastructure
- You will interact with external parties to negotiate peering, procure and evaluate hardware, and grow our infrastructure
- You will participate in a periodic on-call rotation
Experience:
- Extensive familiarity with Cisco, Juniper, Arista hardware/software
- Extensive experience with data centers, backbone and best practices
- Extensive experience managing very large-scale infrastructure
- Understanding of all the infrastructure pieces and protocols needed to make the network reliable
- Extensive knowledge of OSPF, BGP
- Able to capacity-plan and forecast
- Knowledge of MPLS, QOS, ISIS, DWDM a plus
- Coding skills
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 opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.