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Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Infrastructure & Networking at Lyft

Department: InfrastructureEducation: education_optional

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Compensation

CA$136,000 – CA$170,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Lyft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Foundational Infrastructure & Networking team to own core routing, service mesh, control planes, ingress/egress infrastructure, and edge networking at scale. The role involves designing and optimizing Envoy-based systems on AWS and Kubernetes, improving load balancing, service discovery, and dynamic scaling, establishing telemetry and distributed tracing, leading production debugging, and mentoring engineers. Candidates need at least six years of production systems experience and expertise in cloud networking, Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, gRPC, HTTP/2, service meshes, Kubernetes, Terraform, and distributed systems troubleshooting. The role is hybrid in Toronto, requiring office work at least three days per week, with a base salary of CAD 136,000–170,000.

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