Senior Frontend Infra Engineer

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.

The Control Systems team envisions a future where engineers seamlessly command their production workloads with ease and clarity. We aspire to be the definitive interface for all production infrastructure interactions, transforming complexity into intuitive control and empowering Lyft Engineering to scale, operate and react in an emergency with confidence and efficiency.

As a Software Engineer on the Control Systems team, you will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for the production infrastructure tooling experience, and continuously develop and maintain the interfaces that enable our customers to manage their services and entities in production. You will play a key role in shaping the team’s vision as well as executing on the strategy and delivering impactful solutions.

Lyft Infrastructure

We count on the reliability of our infrastructure to empower Lyft teams to provide rich experiences for our customers that are reliable and available in order to ensure our transportation platform connects people and places. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Lyft’s Infrastructure teams are responsible for building the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, and efficient services. We build scalable infrastructure that helps software developers move fast, while still providing them with the flexibility they need to innovate within their teams. We are looking for experienced leaders to guide these teams as they create an exceptional development experience for all of Lyft. These are high leverage roles, as your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering, and contribute directly to Lyft’s overall stability.

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of the Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for maintaining and improving our infrastructure
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives
• Mentor and guide the technical development of your team members. 
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Work with engineers and stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our customers (other developers at Lyft).
• Lead large projects, ensuring end-to-end execution with a focus on high quality and reliability.
• Provide technical guidance and contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture at Lyft.
• Actively unblock and support team members, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.

Experience:

• 5 years of professional frontend software engineering experience
• Experience with frontend technology and experience leading frontend teams
• Experience working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating infrastructure at a large-scale
• You are steadfastly focused on your customers
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
• You have built teams that are motivated and value a strong sense of ownership
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program

Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. 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, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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 3 days per week 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 New York City area is $148,000 - $185,000. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.