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Lyft Engineering Manager - Infrastructure in Montreal, Canada
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. We see cities evolve into safe and friendly living spaces, people engaging in neighbourhood communities, where there are fewer personal cars and people are using shared and active transportation modes more.
Today, Lyft is a leader in micromobility and enables millions of rides every day in more than 200 cities though our ride-sharing, bike-sharing and scooter-sharing technology. Our Montreal office developed the first automated bike-share system in America (Montreal’s Bixi), a system that has since evolved and grown and is now deployed in more than 50 cities around the world: Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Washington DC, to name a few. Many of the biggest bike-share systems in the world!
Lyft’s Transit, Bikes & Scooters (TBS) engineering team in Montreal is growing rapidly, and we are looking for engineering managers to help us scale. Our engineers are smart, flexible, and capable of 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 varying technical backgrounds and interests, they provide general technical direction for our teams. Together, we build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things we create. More specifically, Infrastructure Engineering Managers focus on our engineering and production systems, the platforms and tools our engineers use and ensure the reliability of our systems.
Responsibilities:
Manage, mentor and lead a technical team as well as work on personal and technical development of its team members
Structure and staff the team, aiming to provide growth opportunities to team members and achieve business goals in parallel
Guide the team to deliver high-quality products and solutions by following best practices
Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
Work with your engineers and dependent stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals
Own your team’s deliverables and ensure shipment of scalable, highly available products that delight our passengers and drivers
Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Think ahead and build for the future
Experience:
You are fluent in English and French, written and spoken
7+ years technical experience in infrastructure technologies and can contribute to planning and design discussions and drive technical decisions
3+ years experience managing a team, guiding them through their career development
You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
Familiarity with the following paradigms: Platform Engineering (ideal), Site Reliability Engineering (required), Devops (required)
Solid experience in one of the major cloud providers: AWS (ideal), GCP, Azure
Experience supporting environments subject to compliance/security/privacy requirements (PCI, SOC2, ISO27001) a plus
Experience guiding teams through major technology and organizational transformations, a plus
Ability to communicate effectively in various forms, e.g. technical documents, discussions, presentations
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.