Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform

1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
instacart.careers

instacart.careers

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America that works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. They partner with over 1,000 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery, an...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K

Description

  • Own and articulate the technical strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for Enterprise Platform APIs, tools, and data models.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10+ software engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Design and deliver high-scale, low-latency APIs and distributed services using REST and gRPC.
  • Define API contracts, versioning policies, and schema management practices.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Business Development, Professional Services, Data Science, and engineering teams to drive platform adoption.
  • Oversee production services end to end, including SLOs/SLAs, on-call operations, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Improve developer velocity and product quality through tooling, CI/CD, observability, and automation.
  • Drive cross-org initiatives that support enterprise objectives and retailer needs.
  • Raise the bar for reliability, operational excellence, and inclusive team culture.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing teams of 10+ software engineers.
  • Proven experience leading backend or platform teams that build and operate high-scale, low-latency APIs and distributed services.
  • Hands-on experience with service-oriented architectures, API design, data modeling, and schema or version management.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, or Python.
  • Experience building services on a major cloud provider such as AWS or GCP.
  • Experience running always-on services, including SLOs/SLAs, on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortem improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and deliver technical roadmaps and ship cross-functional projects end to end.
  • Experience hiring, coaching, and performance managing engineers in an inclusive and collaborative environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred: expertise with observability and reliability tooling, plus resiliency or chaos testing.
  • Preferred: success driving platform adoption across multiple stakeholder teams.
  • Preferred: domain experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or enterprise platforms.
  • Preferred: experience improving developer velocity using AI technologies.
  • Preferred: advanced degree in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility across Canada under Instacart’s Flex First policy.
  • Competitive compensation with location-based base salary ranges.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Flexible work environment with choice of home, office, or other work location, plus regular in-person events.

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