Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

🔥 5 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $229k - $241k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

📋 Description

• Lead technical direction for local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and inner development loop ergonomics • Lead technical direction for CI pipeline infrastructure, commit-to-feedback loops, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation • Own architecture and evolution of pre-production environments, staging stability, service-owner accountability, and parallel end-to-end validation environments • Drive reliability and resilience of git infrastructure at monorepo scale and implement disaster recovery plans • Advance AI-powered developer tooling, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and parallel AI session platforms • Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives improving developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and local development • Own and instrument developer experience metrics to prioritize investment • Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out platform changes with minimal disruption • Set technical standards for reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics • Mentor engineers and grow the developer infrastructure community • Represent the team in cross-organization technical discussions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience • Deep, hands-on experience operating CI/CD systems at scale, including pipeline design, reliability, and performance tuning • Experience building or operating local/remote development environments or developer platforms • Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact • Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS • Experience with containerization using Docker • Experience with orchestration such as ECS/Kubernetes or equivalent • Experience with large monorepos and related git infrastructure challenges • Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and influence without direct authority • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred • Experience owning or evolving a developer environment platform used by a large engineering organization preferred • Experience stabilizing pre-production/staging environments at scale preferred • Experience with AI-powered developer tooling preferred • Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics preferred • Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants • Flexible work arrangement: employees may work from home, an office, or a favorite coffee shop • Regular in-person events • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits