Software Engineer, Async Platform

About this role

Lyft is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain a highly scalable asynchronous platform using Infrastructure as Code practices. You'll design systems that improve reliability and efficiency while balancing feature velocity with service-level objectives in a collaborative, on-call environment.

What you'll do

• Monitor and analyze metrics from OS, control planes, and applications for fault detection and performance optimization
• Design and deploy tooling that enhances platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency
• Operate and improve infrastructure using industry best practices and automation
• Balance feature development speed with reliability and SLO targets
• Participate in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and capacity planning with cross-functional teams
• Respond to incidents, participate in on-call rotations, and support teams during customer-impacting events

What they're looking for

• Go, Python, or object-oriented programming languages
• Large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems design
• AWS/GCP/Azure cloud environments
• Message queue systems (SQS, Kafka, Kinesis preferred)
• Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Observability and metrics analysis
• Technical debt reduction and code quality focus
• Production incident response and troubleshooting

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with additional programs
• Mental health benefits
• Family building, childcare, and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Discretionary PTO (salaried) or 15 days PTO (hourly), plus 12 holidays
• 18 weeks paid parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents)