Software Engineer, Async Platform

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze metrics from operating systems, control planes, and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement.
• Design, develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our platform.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives.
• Operate and improve our Infrastructure using industry best practices and tools.
• Participate in design and production readiness reviews, platform management and capacity planning ceremonies with cross-functional teams.
• Document Infrastructure operations process and insights, identify repeatable actions and ruthlessly automate repetitive tasks.
• Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering.
• Experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks.
• Experience developing in Go, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience working with a cloud-based environments such as AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Take pride in reducing technical debt; you pay attention to small details, and you value keeping code/configuration clean and maintainable.

Nice-to-Haves

• Knowledge with SQS, Kafka and Kinesis.

Compensation and Benefits

• Expected base pay range for this position in the Seattle area is $117,760 - $147,200.
• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Child care and pet benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future.
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits.
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.