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Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. As such, reliability is amongst Lyft's top priorities. The Resilience group builds systems and tools that make our services predictable and dependable. This allows engineers to ship thousands of changes a day with confidence.

As part of the Resilience group, you will collaborate with software engineers to tackle advanced challenges in the areas of networking and distributed systems. Your work as a Research Engineering Intern will involve interpreting system observability data and formulating approaches to improving systemic reliability. For this position, we are looking for a Ph.D. student who is passionate about bridging the theoretical and practical aspects of the field and redefining state of the art in research and industry.

Responsibilities:

• You will analyze and improve the reliability of currently deployed systems
• Develop algorithms and techniques to quantify and characterize reliability 
• Formulate approaches to reducing configuration and automatically tuning systems with the goal of improving systemic resilience
• Make contributions based on research activities to Open Source projects such as Envoy
• Participate in team advancement of tools and infrastructure to evaluate reliability and track it over time

Experience:

• Pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and returning to a degree program after completion of the internship
• Experience with systems programming in Go, C and/or C++
• A passion for sustainability and/or transportation
• Understanding of networking concepts: TCP/IP, HTTP, QUIC, and load balancing
• Familiarity with Linux
• Bonus for contributions to open-source projects or hands-on experience building large scale distributed systems

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• Monthly commuter subsidy to cover your transit to work
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement
• 20% off all Lyft rides

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