The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both: short-term functionality and long-term health
Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own: the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks
Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt: reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team
Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take: holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond.
Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve: bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities
Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities,: lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence
What they're looking for
- Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s: broader internal engineering community
- BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related: field, or equivalent practical experience.
- + years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track: record of technical leadership and system ownership.
- Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly: available, large-scale distributed systems.
