Base Salary
$221k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of Instacart’s Bazel build system, including remote caching, remote build execution, build performance, and developer ergonomics.
- Lead the technical direction of the Go platform, frameworks, standard libraries, service scaffolding, and engineering patterns.
- Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that improve build times, CI reliability, and local development workflows.
- Own, define, instrument, and prioritize developer experience metrics for the systems under leadership.
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out build-system and Go-platform changes.
- Set technical standards for reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics.
- Mentor engineers and grow the organization’s Bazel and Go expertise.
- Represent the team in cross-organizational technical discussions about build systems, CI, and backend platform direction.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Bazel, including remote caching, remote build execution, and performance tuning of large build graphs.
- Strong production experience writing and operating Go services at scale, including large-codebase structure, frameworks, dependency management, testing patterns, and shared libraries.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact on developer velocity, build performance, or CI reliability.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and distributed systems.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence without direct authority.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Experience migrating a large codebase or monorepo to Bazel or evolving a major Bazel setup.
- Experience owning or contributing to a Go framework, standard library, or service scaffolding used by a large engineering organization.
- Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics.
- Experience operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations at high-growth companies.
Benefits
- Remote Flex First work arrangement with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another location.
- Regular in-person events to build community.
- Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Market-competitive benefits offered based on work location.
About Instacart
Instacart is a leading grocery technology company that partners with more than 2,200 retail banners – representing nearly 100,000 stores – to transform how people shop for the groceries they need from the retailers they trust, while creating flexible earning opportunities for shoppers. Through the Instacart Marketplace, Instacart Enterprise platform, and Instacart Ads ecosystem, the company powers ecommerce, fulfillment, in-store technology, AI offerings, and advertising for partners. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.