Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Infrastructure & Networking

Lyft·Toronto, Canada·Posted 5 October 2026

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. Lyft’s Infrastructure organization builds the high-scale foundation that every engineer at Lyft relies on to ship safe, performant, and reliable services. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundational Infrastructure & Networking team , you will own the core routing, service mesh, and control planes that power hundreds of microservices processing millions of rides daily. This is an IC role with massive engineering leverage: your technical architecture, systems design, and performance optimizations will directly amplify the velocity of every software engineer across Lyft while ensuring platform resiliency at scale. Responsibilities Architect & Scale Core Networking: Design, build, and optimize our service mesh, ingress/egress infrastructure, and edge routing capabilities using Envoy Proxy and custom control planes on AWS. Optimize High-Throughput Control Planes: Enhance load-balancing algorithms, service discovery, and dynamic scaling mechanisms across high-concurrency data and control planes running on Kubernetes. Drive Systems Reliability & Observability: Operationalize deep telemetry, metrics, and distributed tracing across our…

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