Engineering Manager - Developer Experience, Dev Environments

At Lyft, our mission is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive and diverse organization.

The Developer Environments team, part of the Developer Experience group, owns mission critical platforms that ensure that Lyft systems and architecture can handle the load of customer demand during peak events like New Years Eve, as well as catching defects in code before they reach production. These goals are achieved through building and supporting the fundamental test infrastructure and platforms for orchestrating and generating simulated traffic, through a large-scale ride simulator and an end-to-end testing framework.

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. You will play a key role in shaping the team’s vision, guiding their growth, and delivering impactful solutions.

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

Lyft Infrastructure

We count on the reliability of our infrastructure to empower Lyft teams to provide rich experiences for our customers that are reliable and available in order to ensure our transportation platform connects people and places. 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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, guide individuals on 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

Experience:

• 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
• Experience working on teams responsible for maintaining and operating 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 guiding them through their career development
• You have built teams and products that scale with the company’s evolving needs
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
• You have built teams that are motivated and value a strong sense of ownership
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work

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

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $156,000 - $215,000 CAD. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.