Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience
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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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