9 hours ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and inner-development-loop ergonomics.
- Lead CI pipeline infrastructure and the commit-to-feedback loop, including reliability, diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation.
- Own the architecture and evolution of pre-production environments, staging stability, service-owner accountability, and parallel validation workflows.
- Drive reliability, resilience, large-scale Git operations, and disaster recovery for monorepo infrastructure.
- Advance AI-powered developer tooling, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and platforms for parallel AI sessions.
- Design and lead multi-quarter initiatives that improve developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and local development.
- Define and instrument developer experience metrics and use them 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 represent the team in cross-organizational 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 for large engineering organizations.
- Experience building or operating local or remote development environments or developer platforms, such as ephemeral environments, development containers, or internal PaaS.
- A track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact on developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production stability, or feedback-loop time.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure, Docker or other containerization technologies, and ECS, Kubernetes, or equivalent orchestration.
- Experience with large monorepos and related Git infrastructure challenges.
- Strong technical leadership, including setting direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing without direct authority.
- Preferred: bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience owning developer environment platforms, stabilizing large-scale pre-production environments, using AI-powered developer tooling, defining developer productivity metrics, or operating developer infrastructure at high-growth companies.
Benefits
- Remote Flex First work arrangement with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, plus regular in-person events.
- Currently hiring in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Market-competitive compensation and benefits based on work location.
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About Instacart
Instacart builds a grocery technology platform used by retailers and consumers for online shopping, delivery, and pickup. Its business spans a consumer marketplace, enterprise e-commerce and fulfillment software, and a retail media ads network, generating revenue from fees, subscriptions, software, and advertising. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is publicly traded on Nasdaq and operates across the U.S. and Canada.