Software Engineer, Resilience
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We are a transportation service that drivers rely on to earn a living and riders need to get where they are going. As such, reliability is Lyft's top priority. The Server Resilience team builds systems and tools that make our service predictable and dependable. This allows engineers to ship thousands of changes a day with confidence.
The team is working on a diverse set of projects aligned to systemic reliability. Examples include:
- Auto-remediation of detected issues
- Real-time dynamic network tuning
- Automation of manual runbook operations
As an engineer on Server Resilience team, you will define, build, and deploy systems that enable non-stop operations. You will partner with hundreds of engineers across the company to improve Lyft's resilience posture. Your work will impact millions of drivers and riders.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining systems that improve resiliency
- Championing best practices for building scalable and reliable services
- Conducting root cause analysis on production issues with other engineers
- Writing and maintaining cloud automation software and internal tools to support developers deploying, running and monitoring individual Lyft services
- Understanding production incidents and applying the learnings to inform future work
- Develop ideas and shaping the roadmap to improve our systems and processes
Experience & Skills:
- Experience with systems programming in Go, C and/or C++
- Experience with UNIX systems including solid scripting skills in bash, Python, or a scripting language of your preference
- Knowledge of configuration management systems
- Experience operating and managing Kubernetes at scale
- Experience building and running services at scale on cloud platforms
- Contributions to open source projects
- A passion for sustainability and/or transportation
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