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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Instacart· Infrastructure
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RemoteCA$229k - CA$241kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team responsible for leading technical direction of developer infrastructure (local/remote development environments, CI pipelines, pre-production environments, git infrastructure) to improve developer velocity and CI reliability. Hands-on technical leadership with coding, architecture, and cross-org collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical direction for Instacart's local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and the developer-facing ergonomics of the inner development loop.
  • Lead the technical direction for our CI pipeline infrastructure and the commit-to-feedback loop, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation.
  • Own the architecture and evolution of our pre-production environments, including staging stability, service-owner accountability models, and environments for end-to-end validation by engineers and AI agents.
  • Drive the reliability and resilience of our git infrastructure, git operations at monorepo scale, and implement disaster recovery plans.
  • Advance AI-powered developer tooling across the workflow, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and platforms enabling many AI sessions in parallel with human oversight.
  • Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and the local development loop.
  • Own the developer experience metrics for the systems you lead: define what 'good' looks like, instrument it, and use data to guide investments.
  • Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to rollout platform changes with minimal disruption.
  • Set the technical bar for reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics of the systems you own.
  • Mentor engineers in the team and broader organization; grow the community of developer infrastructure experts.
  • Represent the team in cross-org technical discussions on local development experience, CI/CD, pre-production, and AI-augmented development.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software development experience.
  • Deep, hands-on experience operating CI/CD systems at scale (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), including pipeline design, reliability, and performance tuning for large engineering organizations.
  • 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).
  • Experience with large monorepos and the git infrastructure challenges that come with them.
  • Strong technical leadership: driving direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing without direct authority.

Skills

Required:CI/CD systems operation at scaleLocal/remote development environmentsMonorepo git infrastructure
Nice to have:AI-powered developer tooling

Benefits

  • Flexible, remote-first work arrangement (Canada)
  • Competitive compensation suitable for location
  • New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
  • Comprehensive benefits package (details available via company link)
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

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