At Lyft, our mission is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive and diverse organization.

The Developer Experience team owns the end-to-end developer tooling, workflows, and infrastructure that enable Lyft engineers to ship quickly, safely, and reliably with confidence. This includes everything from source code management, development environments, language tooling, testing and debugging platforms, to CI and Build systems and infrastructure. Our mission is to remove friction from the development process and empower engineers to do their best work.

We’re looking for a strategic, people-first leader to head our Developer Experience group. As the senior manager of this organization, you’ll define the vision, set the roadmap, and lead teams focused on building and evolving the platforms, tools, and workflows that power engineering across Lyft. You’ll drive operational excellence, scale developer infrastructure, and explore new technologies. In particular, you’ll be identifying and deploying thoughtful applications of AI that will shape the future of software development.

You will play a critical role in shaping the engineering culture and driving development velocity at Lyft, ensuring that developers are supported by world-class tools and practices. This role requires a strong blend of technical leadership, organizational planning, and people management.

• Vision & Strategy: Define and own the long-term vision for Developer Experience across the engineering organization; balance strategic investments with near-term execution
• Team Leadership: Lead multiple teams responsible for key developer platforms and services; organize and resource teams to align with business and engineering goals
• Technical Direction: Oversee architectural decisions, tech stack evolution, and engineering best practices
• Execution & Delivery: Set and track OKRs, SLOs, and KPIs; ensure timely delivery of high-impact projects that improve developer workflows and productivity
• Innovation & Impact: Identify areas where AI, automation, and emerging technologies can meaningfully enhance the developer experience
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, infrastructure, and security leaders to align on priorities and execution plans
• Team Development: Hire and retain top talent; invest in people’s career growth and build a strong culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence
• Operational Excellence: Ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and continuously improving through clear processes and quality standards

• 5+ years of experience as an engineering leader, including experience managing managers and leading multiple teams
• Proven success in driving large scale changes to improve developer velocity and/or remove developer toil
• Deep understanding of developer workflows, CI/CD, testing frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling
• Track record of driving change through influence, vision, and execution across large engineering organizations
• Experience managing infrastructure and developer platforms at scale, with a focus on reliability and usability
• Exposure to or curiosity about applying AI to developer tooling
• Strong communicator who can engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for developer empathy, technical excellence, and creating an environment where engineers thrive

• 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 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

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 $216,000 - $270,000. 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.