Engineering Leader, Infrastructure
At Lyft, our mission is to improve peoples lives with the worlds best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft is a global ecosystem of dynamic workplaces, and we are thrilled to open a Prague-based tech hub this year. Our engineers and tech talent in the Czechia will help build the products and services that keep our riders and drivers coming back to our service each time.
You will be one of the first, and most critical, hires in our Prague-based office. We hope you are energized by a combination of startup scrappiness and newness of opening a new site, while being backed by a big player in the US-technology and services market. Best of both worlds and two experiences in one! Come help us build this innovative hub and have key decision-making influence in the office infrastructure, organizational design and cultural pillars!
The** Application Runtime **engineering team within Infrastructure is responsible for building and operating the runtime environment that Lyft depends upon to operate. Our teams develop, maintain and operate the Compute, Networking and Persistence control planes and services that support thousands of Lyft services and millions of customer rides, reliably and efficiently.
You will be responsible for building and leading the teams that own and operate the foundational infrastructure that Lyft engineers rely on in order to build stable, scalable, and efficient services. We build tools and services that help software developers move fast, while 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 Lyfts overall stability.
**Responsibilities**:
- Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
- 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, address underperformance, and recognize the individual 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 teams code, architecture, and processes
- Work with your engineers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals
**Experience**:
- 7 years of experience in an engineering management role with 3 years of experience in a people management, team leadership role
- 2 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure and/or distributed systems
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or a related STEM field
- You are steadfastly focused on your customers, whether they are drivers, passengers, or other Lyft employees
- You have experience leading a team of engineers and managers, guiding them through their career development
- You believe in building both teams and products that scale
- You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and youre committed to driving projects to completion creatively
- You can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
- You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- You think ahead and build for the future
- This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule if an established Lyft Location is available to the region — Hybrid Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year._
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