Every engineering team at Lyft is responsible for running and operating the software that they build. As part of the Lyft Urban Solutions infrastructure team, the Reliability Engineer will work with engineering teams throughout our organization in 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.

Lyft’s team in Montreal is growing, and we are looking for a solid, experienced infrastructure engineer to join our Infrastructure team to help maintain our current systems, work on our next-generation platform and bring it to multiple different markets and business models. 

Technical interviews and interactions with the other offices in the company will be mainly in English; however, the working environment in Montreal is bilingual. 

Responsibilities:

• Use the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews to run the platform.
• Build infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systems
• Help define infrastructure roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs.
• Build holistic visibility into SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, dependency graphs, past performance of software, network, and system to ensure that we can continue to scale without increasing operational burden or toil.
• Share knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices.
• Step back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to minimize toil. Use those learnings to drive the best operational practices.
• Partner with the broader Lyft organization to build a culture of rigorously learning from incidents.
• Share on-call responsibilities with other teammates and own the improvement of the team’s on-call practices
• Unblock, support, and effectively communicate across teams to achieve results
• Assist in cost engineering efforts to ensure efficient use of cloud resources.

Experience:

• Experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale customer-facing SaaS infrastructure
• Experience with high level programming languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and declarative languages (eg. Terraform).
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (eg. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc.) and container orchestrators (eg. Kubernetes)
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Strong Cross team collaboration
• Good communication skills
• 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
• Access to a Health Care Savings Account
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
• 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

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