Platform Engineer - Cloud, LUS

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

As a leader in micromobility, Lyft powers millions of rides daily across over 200 cities with our cutting-edge ride-sharing, bike-sharing, and scooter-sharing technologies. Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North America's first automated bike-share system, Bixi, which has since revolutionized urban mobility. Today, our pioneering system is operational in more than 50 cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Washington DC, to name just a few. Join us and be part of the team behind some of the world's largest and most successful bike-share systems!

Every engineering team at Lyft is responsible for running and operating the software that they build. The Infrastructure team works towards standardizing and supporting all the rapidly evolving teams throughout our organization, assessing their architecture, helping them design scalable services, and fostering excellent operational practices. It's a mission-critical role of ensuring that our systems are always healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute features to our infrastructure codebase in Terraform, Python and Golang
• Deploy new features across a global infrastructure in respecting change management practices and maintaining high availability
• Apply best practices in working with source code including branch management and code review
• Conduct disaster recovery rehearsals and regular maintenance of the system
• Respond promptly and constructively to outages and security incidents
• Analyse system failures using modern log analysis tools, metrics and tracing
• Resolve operational issues in communicating clearly and professionally with other stakeholders including development teams and city authorities
• Document new features and create incident post-mortems as necessary

Experience:

• Experience with deploying and creating new containers using Docker images
• Kubernetes cluster management including cluster upgrades and helm chart management
• AWS resource management in a cross-region context (VPC, EC2, RDS, SQS, DynamoDB)
• Terraform 1.x / HCL2 including best practices for submodules and state management
• Python 3.x including unit testing techniques and type hinting
• Golang, ideally including experience with Kubernetes Operator SDK framework
• Relational databases such as MySQL
• Experience with Crossplane is a plus
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS and ISO27001 a plus
• Must be fluent in spoken and written English and minimally be willing to learn French if required

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 to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

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, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Montreal area is $72,000-$90,000. 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.