Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, Lyft Urban Solutions

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.

As a leader in micromobility, Lyft powers millions of rides daily across over 200 cities with our cutting-edge ride-sharing, bike-sharing, and scooter-sharing technologies. Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North America's first automated bike-share system, Bixi, which has since revolutionized urban mobility. Today, our pioneering system is operational in more than 50 cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Washington DC, to name just a few. Join us and be part of the team behind some of the world's largest and most successful bike-share systems!

Every engineering team at Lyft is responsible for running and operating the software that they build. The Infrastructure team works towards standardizing and supporting all the rapidly evolving teams throughout our organization, assessing their architecture, helping them design scalable services, and fostering excellent operational practices. It's a mission-critical role of ensuring that our systems are always healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale.

LUS (Lyft Urban Solutions) engineering team in Montreal is 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.

• 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
• Work with your engineers and dependent stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals
• 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
• 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

• 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)
• 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

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. 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 if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Montreal area is CAD $140,000 - CAD $175,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.