Engineering Manager, Developer Environments

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Lyft’s engineering team is growing rapidly, and we are looking for engineering managers to help us scale. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges.  Our engineers are smart, flexible, and love solving difficult challenges. They look to their managers for organizational transparency, career development, mentorship, and honest feedback. They move fast and ship code to production continuously, relying on their leadership to increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. Our engineering managers are people with diverse technical backgrounds and interests. As managers it is our job to remain curious and continuously deliver impact by driving our team’s technical direction and vision. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Lyft’s Infrastructure teams are responsible for building the foundational systems that engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, and efficient services. We build scalable infrastructure that helps software developers move fast, while still providing them with the flexibility they need to innovate within their teams. We are looking for experienced leaders to guide these teams as they create an exceptional development experience for all of Lyft. These are high leverage roles, as your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering, and contribute directly to Lyft’s overall stability.

As the Engineering Manager for the Developer Environments team, you will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for building and maintaining critical infrastructure that enhances developer productivity and system reliability. The team builds and supports the environments where developers work and test as well as simulation systems and tools. Some of these systems are critical to the SDLC of engineers at Lyft, others ensure Lyft’s production services can handle the load of customer demand during peak events like New Years Eve, while optimizing for efficiency throughout the remainder of the year. You will play a key role in shaping the team’s vision, supporting their growth, and delivering impactful solutions for engineers throughout the organization.

Read more about some of the projects this team has worked on:

• Extending our Envoy mesh with staging overrides
• Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
• How Lyft uses load testing to ensure reliable service during peak events

• →Lead Infrastructure Engineering teams responsible for maintaining and improving our infrastructure
• →Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives
• →Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers, and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• →Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
• →Provide continuous feedback, support individuals on improving or optimizing their performance, and recognize the strengths and contributions of your team members
• →Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
• →Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• →Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• →Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
• →Work with your engineers and stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
• →Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our passengers and drivers

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager. Previous experience managing Infrastructure teams a bonus
• You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
• You are proficient in one or more high-level programming language, such as Python, Go, Rust, or Javascript
• Experience working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating production software and infrastructure at a large-scale
• You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees
• Experience leading a team of engineers and supporting them through career development
• You have built teams and products that scale with a company’s evolving needs
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion
• You have built teams that are motivated and value a strong sense of ownership
• Experience supporting teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work