Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Instacart
Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 229,000 - 241,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Metrics-driven decision-making","Cross-team collaboration","Technical writing"]

Lead the technical direction for Instacart’s Developer Experience platform, focusing on the inner development loop. Drive improvements to local and remote development environments, CI pipeline infrastructure, commit-to-feedback reliability, pre-production staging health, and git/monorepo operations. Advance AI-powered developer tooling (AI code review and agentic workflows) while using developer velocity and CI metrics to prioritize investments and partner cross-org to ship high-quality software faster.

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Instacart
Instacart
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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction for Instacart’s Developer Experience platform, focusing on the inner development loop. Drive improvements to local and remote development environments, CI pipeline infrastructure, commit-to-feedback reliability, pre-production staging health, and git/monorepo operations. Advance AI-powered developer tooling (AI code review and agentic workflows) while using developer velocity and CI metrics to prioritize investments and partner cross-org to ship high-quality software faster.
Location: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the technical direction for local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and inner-loop developer ergonomics.
  • •Lead the technical direction for CI pipeline infrastructure and the commit-to-feedback loop, including reliability, failure diagnostics, and flaky-test reduction.
  • •Own the architecture and evolution of pre-production environments, including staging stability and end-to-end validation models for engineers and AI agents.
  • •Drive reliability and resilience for git infrastructure at monorepo scale and implement disaster recovery plans.
  • •Advance AI-powered developer tooling across the workflow, including AI-assisted code review and agentic development workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 229,000 - 241,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software development experience.
  • •Hands-on experience operating CI/CD systems at scale (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), including pipeline design, reliability, and performance tuning.
  • •Experience building or operating local/remote development environments or developer platforms (e.g., ephemeral environments, dev containers, internal PaaS) with a point of view on the inner development loop.
  • •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 cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (ECS/Kubernetes or equivalent), plus large monorepos and git infrastructure challenges.
Experience:10+ yearsDeveloper infrastructureCI/CDCloud infrastructureMonoreposDeveloper platforms
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipMetrics-driven decision-makingCross-team collaborationTechnical writing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CI/CDBuildkiteGitHub ActionsJenkinsCircleCIEphemeral environmentsDev containersInternal PaaSAWSDockerECSKubernetesMonoreposGitDisaster recoveryAI-assisted code reviewAgentic development workflows

Company Brief

Instacart
Operates an online grocery marketplace connecting customers with personal shoppers and local retailers for grocery delivery and pickup. Provides technology, logistics, and advertising solutions to supermarkets and consumer packaged goods brands.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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