IT Engineer - Networking & Infrastructure
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Designs and operates Lyft’s foundational networking infrastructure, including service mesh, routing, ingress and egress systems, and control planes on AWS and Kubernetes. The role focuses on scaling high-throughput distributed systems, improving observability and reliability, debugging complex production incidents across networking layers, and providing technical leadership through architecture reviews, incident response, and mentorship. 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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundational Infrastructure & Networking team, 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.
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Requirements
- 6+ years of production systems experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure and networking platforms
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, TCP/IP, DNS, gRPC, HTTP/2, load balancing, and AWS networking architecture
- Hands-on experience building or operating large-scale proxy and service mesh technologies such as Envoy, Istio, Cilium, or Nginx
- Strong experience managing production Kubernetes clusters on public cloud providers such as AWS or GCP
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex, multilayered distributed-system failures under high-throughput conditions
Benefits
- 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 with company match to help save for your future
- Flexible paid time off policy for salaried team members
- 15 days paid time off for hourly team members, with an additional day for each year of service
- 18 weeks of paid time off for new parents, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs
- Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits
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