Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

A hands-on technical leader who is equally comfortable in a CI pipeline definition, a design doc, a vision document, and a cross-org migration plan.

Metrics-driven. You use build times, CI failure rates, pre-production pass rates, feedback-loop latency, and developer feedback to guide where to invest.

A multiplier. You make the engineers around you more effective through mentorship, clear technical writing, and pragmatic guidance.

Comfortable driving cross-team change. You can build consensus for a migration or a platform shift and see it through to adoption.

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.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience owning or evolving a developer environment platform used by a large engineering org.

Experience stabilizing pre-production / staging environments at scale, including establishing service-owner accountability and SLAs.

Experience with AI-powered developer tooling — AI code review, agentic coding workflows, or platforms that run async agentic work for engineers.

Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics (CI failure rate, feedback-loop time, pre-production pass rate, local dev loop).

Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations.

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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.