Description
At Instacart, we're transforming the grocery industry by delivering an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods. We invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.
As the Engineering Manager for the Service Platform team, you will lead the group responsible for Instacart's core deployment and release engineering systems, including our canary infrastructure and end-to-end deployment tooling. This platform is foundational to the reliability of every service at Instacart, and your work will directly shape how developers safely, confidently, and efficiently ship code.
You will partner closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams to define and evolve a platform that enables fast iteration without compromising reliability. We are looking for a product-focused engineering manager with a strong interest in developer experience and internal tools, who can guide the team in building intuitive, scalable, and highly resilient systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the group responsible for Instacart's core deployment and release engineering systems
- Partner with product, infrastructure, and service teams to define and evolve the platform
- Guide the team in building intuitive, scalable, and highly resilient systems
- Set the vision, drive execution, and ensure that Instacart engineers have world-class tools to deploy, validate, and monitor their services
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of experience leading and managing people with an emphasis on getting deep into details on designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- 7+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- Proven track record of launching and shipping high-impact products
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong communication skills and ability to contextualize problems across various audiences
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and involving the right stakeholders to address issues efficiently
- Experience building and shipping products to users
- Expertise building platforms and high-scale infrastructure
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
- Flexible approach to where we work
Salary Range
- CAN$196,000-$207,000