Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Infrastructure & Networking

At Lyft in the Transportation space, Connecting cities, one ride at a time, for a more equitable future..

<p data-path-to-node="9">At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. Lyft’s Infrastructure organization builds the high-scale foundation that every engineer at Lyft relies on to ship safe, performant, and reliable services.</p>

<p data-path-to-node="10">As a <strong data-path-to-node="10" data-index-in-node="5">Senior Software Engineer on the Foundational Infrastructure & Networking team</strong>, you will own the core routing, service mesh, and control planes that power hundreds of microservices processing millions of rides daily. This is an IC role with massive engineering leverage: your technical architecture, systems design, and performance optimizations will directly amplify the velocity of every software engineer across Lyft while ensuring platform resiliency at scale.</p>

<h2 data-path-to-node="12">Responsibilities</h2>

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<li><strong data-path-to-node="13,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Architect & Scale Core Networking:</strong> Design, build, and optimize our service mesh, ingress/egress infrastructure, and edge routing capabilities using Envoy Proxy and custom control planes on AWS.</li>

<li><strong data-path-to-node="13,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Optimize High-Throughput Control Planes:</strong> Enhance load-balancing algorithms, service discovery, and dynamic scaling mechanisms across high-concurrency data and control planes running on Kubernetes.</li>

<li><strong data-path-to-node="13,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Drive Systems Reliability & Observability:</strong> Operationalize deep telemetry, metrics, and distributed tracing across our networking stack to drastically reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and resolution (MTTR).</li>

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