2 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
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 and instrument developer experience metrics, using data to prioritize investment.
- 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-organization technical discussions about build, CI/CD, 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 structuring large Go codebases with 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, with AWS preferred, 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 preferred.
- Experience migrating a large codebase or monorepo to Bazel or evolving an existing Bazel setup through major upgrades preferred.
- Experience owning or contributing to a Go framework, standard library, or service scaffolding used by a large engineering organization preferred.
- Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics preferred.
- Experience operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations at high-growth companies preferred.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement, with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location.
- Regular in-person events to build community.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Currently hiring in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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.