Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

about 4 years old

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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.

From day one, Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. And self-driving cars are critical to that mission: they can make our streets safer, cities greener, and traffic a thing of the past. That’s why we started Level 5, our self-driving division, where we’re building a self-driving system to operate on the Lyft network.

Level 5 is looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in developing the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, and each has the opportunity to have an outsized influence on the future of our technology. Our world-class software and hardware experts work in brand new garages and labs in Palo Alto, California, and offices in London, England and Munich, Germany. And we’re moving at an incredible pace: we’re currently servicing employee rides in our test vehicles on the Lyft app. Learn more at lyft.com/level5.

The Autonomous Infrastructure team is responsible for creating and maintaining the systems that engineers rely on in order to make autonomous driving a reality. We build powerful, flexible, enabling infrastructure that allows software developers to move and innovate fast.

As an infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the foundational pieces and frameworks of our cloud footprint. You will focus on things like security, observability, provisioning, scheduling and deployments.

Every day we compile millions of lines of code, drive thousands of miles in simulation, process hundreds of Terabytes of data and scale up or down thousands of compute instances. All of these rely on the foundation that we build and operate for the whole autonomous vehicle program. If you are excited to help drive this mission, we should talk!

Responsibilities:

Create resilient and scalable infrastructure that enables rapid iteration across all of Level 5
Ensure operational excellence of our cloud footprint by providing observability into system health and execution & by building tools and dashboards to monitor and improve efficiency
Be a force multiplier by sharing infrastructure knowledge and advocating for best practices across the entire Autonomous organization
Support the Autonomous organization in their cloud needs by providing an amazing developer experience while balancing organizational needs, timelines and costs

Experience:

Strong knowledge of Software Engineering and Computer Science fundamentals with 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
Experience designing resilient architectures with public cloud offerings (AWS is a must)
Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and observability (e.g. Stackdriver, Wavefront) stacks
Exposure to data and compute frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow) and their deployments at scale
Programming experience in one or more of Java, Python and C++
Strong verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to uplift others and work effectively with a diverse group of talented engineers

Benefits:

Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
In addition to 11 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
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