SWE-Developer Environments

Full Time
San Francisco, CA, USA
7 months ago

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.

The Developer Environments team at Lyft is responsible for building the right set of tools to enable Engineers at Lyft to test their code changes before it gets shipped to production. We strive to provide our engineers with the safest and fastest features that enable them to validate their code locally on their laptops as well as in our integrated “staging” environment and catch errors early on in the development cycle. This means providing reliable tools with a great user experience that improves the developer productivity of engineers. 

We also own mission critical platforms at Lyft that ensure that Lyft systems and architecture can handle the load of customer demand during peak events like New Years Eve, as well as catching defects in code before they reach production. These goals are achieved through building and supporting the fundamental test infrastructure and platforms for orchestrating and generating simulated traffic, through a large-scale ride simulator and an end-to-end testing framework.

Responsibilities:

As an infrastructure software engineer on the Developer Environments team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining tools, services and libraries that all Engineers at Lyft utilize to perform testing & validation.You will have the opportunity to partner with various other infrastructure and product teams across the company to improve reliability, developer productivity and drive innovation. Your work will help build a resiliency into the Lyft ecosystem by simulating scenarios that can identify software or process failures across Lyft.

We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs. The candidate should be able to dive deep into any problems with lots of ambiguity and build a technical solution to solve it. They should be willing to take ownership of a project or a feature and be able to drive it from design to implementation.

Read more about some of the projects this team has worked on:

  • Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
  • How Lyft uses load testing to ensure reliable service during peak events
Experience:
  • 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
  • Experience working on building testing platforms
  • Experience in building tools for local development and testing
  • Experience with designing & implementing UI & UX for web applications, preferably using Typescript and React 
  • Experience developing in Go, Python and/or C++
  • Familiarity with debugging and triaging internal customer issues with tools
  • Familiarity with container technology such as Docker or Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with networking disciplines, distributed systems, microservice architecture and context propagation 
  • Experience working in the developer experience space is a plus
  • Take pride in improving developer productivity; attention to details and the desire to build the best testing ecosystem
Benefits:
  • Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building 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.  

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, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

The expected range of pay for this position in the US is $144000 - $180000. 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.