Staff Software Engineer leading developer infrastructure, CI/CD, environments, git reliability, and AI tooling. Instacart powers grocery delivery and flexible shopper earnings.
Responsibilities
Lead technical direction for local and remote development environments, including ephemeral environments, image-based provisioning, health checks, and inner development loop ergonomics
Lead technical direction for CI pipeline infrastructure, commit-to-feedback loops, CI reliability, failure diagnostics, flaky-test reduction, and shift-left validation
Own architecture and evolution of pre-production environments, staging stability, service-owner accountability, and parallel end-to-end validation environments
Drive reliability and resilience of git infrastructure at monorepo scale and implement disaster recovery plans
Advance AI-powered developer tooling, AI-assisted code review, agentic development workflows, and parallel AI session platforms
Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives improving developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and local development
Own and instrument developer experience metrics 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 grow the developer infrastructure community
Represent the team in cross-organization 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
Experience building or operating local/remote development environments or developer platforms
Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Experience with containerization using Docker
Experience with orchestration such as ECS/Kubernetes or equivalent
Experience with large monorepos and related git infrastructure challenges
Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and influence without direct authority
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred
Experience owning or evolving a developer environment platform used by a large engineering organization preferred
Experience stabilizing pre-production/staging environments at scale preferred
Experience with AI-powered developer tooling preferred
Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics preferred
Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure preferred
Benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Flexible work arrangement: employees may work from home, an office, or a favorite coffee shop
Regular in-person events
Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
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