Instacart

Own marketing spend operating model and liaise between marketing, finance, and procurement to manage spend accuracy and automate workflows. | 5+ years in FP&A or strategic operations with financial modeling, variance analysis, and AI tool implementation experience. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Why this role is on the menu Join our Marketing Strategic Operations team as the Marketing Financial Operations Manager — the connective tissue between Marketing's ambitions and its financial reality. This role owns the full orchestration of Marketing's spend across the total portfolio — from software and production expenses to media — giving leadership a unified, real-time view into how dollars are moving, where risk lives, and where opportunity exists. This isn't a reporting role. It's a judgment role — one that requires you to synthesize inputs from Finance, Accounting, Procurement, and Marketing leads into a single version of the truth, and to hold that standard even when the inputs are messy or late. About the Team Marketing Strategic Operations enables the entire Marketing function by connecting strategy to execution. We own the operating rhythms, investment management infrastructure, and analytical frameworks that allow Marketing leadership to make faster, more confident decisions. This role sits at the center of that work. What you'll cook up in your first year Own the full Marketing spend operating model across the total portfolio — including templates, spend cadences, actuals integration, and leadership reporting. Serve as the primary liaison between Marketing and Finance, Accounting, and Procurement — managing the monthly close process, accrual accuracy, and spend-to-plan reconciliation with rigor and speed. Maintain a unified, real-time view of spend health across all Marketing leads — surfacing risks, flagging execution gaps, and identifying reallocation opportunities before they become leadership problems. Engage directly with budget owners to validate assumptions, pressure-test spend commitments, and ensure line items reflect what teams are actually going to do — not just what they've planned. Build and maintain AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual effort in recurring spend processes — actuals tagging, variance reporting, spend updates — and continuously identify new automation opportunities. Produce decision-ready outputs for Marketing leadership and cross-functional partners — not just accurate data, but synthesized narratives that make tradeoffs clear. Partner with Finance and Procurement to streamline purchasing and approval processes, improve spend governance, and ensure portfolio integrity across all categories. The secret ingredients we're looking for Must-have pantry staples (Minimum Qualifications) 5+ years of experience in FP&A, marketing operations, or a related strategic operations function. Demonstrated experience owning a full spend portfolio end-to-end — not just contributing to one. Strong command of financial modeling, variance analysis, and spend accuracy improvement. Track record of building or automating recurring financial workflows — with specific examples of manual work eliminated. Hands-on experience applying AI tools to financial or operational workflows — not just awareness, but actual implementation. Proven ability to manage relationships with Finance, Accounting, Procurement, and marketing stakeholders — including holding partners accountable for inputs and timelines. Operates proactively — surfaces risks and blockers before being asked, and drives resolution without requiring escalation. High attention to detail with the judgment to know when a number needs a conversation, not just a correction. Optional garnishes (Preferred Qualifications) Specific marketing exposure — familiarity with how marketing spend decisions translate across different spend categories and what drives portfolio-level tradeoffs. Proficiency with AI tools and automation platforms applied to financial workflows, namely leveraging Claude to build key agentic workflows and dashboards.. Experience with financial planning systems, including Pigment. Background working in marketing within high-growth technology companies. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $163,000—$172,250 USD WA $157,000—$165,450 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $150,000—$158,200 USD All other states $136,000—$143,650 USD

Lead technical roadmap and architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve marketing technology systems. | 8-12 years of software engineering experience with expert Python skills and leadership in scalable systems. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team's technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You'll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology across the organization. About the Job Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs. Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase. Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions. Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects. Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams. About You Minimum Qualifications 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems. Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects. Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations. Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities. Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers. Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies. Preferred Qualifications Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams. Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems, recognized as a domain expert within the organization. Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and strategically managing technical debt at team level. Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes that elevate team quality. Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives. Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and acting as point of contact for technical collaboration. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $230,000—$242,500 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,500 USD All other states $192,000—$202,500 USD

Lead technical roadmap and architectural decisions for marketing technology systems, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team initiatives. | 8-12 years software engineering experience, expert Python skills, leadership in technical roadmaps, and strong communication with senior stakeholders. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team's technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You'll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology across the organization. About the Job • Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs. • Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase. • Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions. • Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects. • Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams. About You Minimum Qualifications • 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems. • Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects. • Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations. • Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities. • Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers. • Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies. Preferred Qualifications • Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams. • Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems, recognized as a domain expert within the organization. • Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and strategically managing technical debt at team level. • Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes that elevate team quality. • Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives. • Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and acting as point of contact for technical collaboration. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $230,000—$242,500 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,500 USD All other states $192,000—$202,500 USD

Lead technical roadmap and architectural decisions for marketing technology systems while mentoring engineers and collaborating with senior leaders. | 8-12 years experience, expert Python skills, scalable system design, leadership in technical roadmaps, and strong communication. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team's technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You'll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology across the organization. About the Job • Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs. • Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase. • Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions. • Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects. • Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams. About You Minimum Qualifications • 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems. • Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects. • Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations. • Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities. • Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers. • Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies. Preferred Qualifications • Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams. • Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems, recognized as a domain expert within the organization. • Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and strategically managing technical debt at team level. • Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes that elevate team quality. • Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives. • Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and acting as point of contact for technical collaboration. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $230,000—$242,500 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,500 USD All other states $192,000—$202,500 USD

Lead technical roadmap, architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in marketing technology systems. | 8-12 years experience, expert Python skills, leadership in scalable system design, and cross-team collaboration. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team's technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You'll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology across the organization. About the Job • Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs. • Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase. • Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions. • Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects. • Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams. About You Minimum Qualifications • 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems. • Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects. • Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations. • Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities. • Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers. • Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies. Preferred Qualifications • Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams. • Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems, recognized as a domain expert within the organization. • Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and strategically managing technical debt at team level. • Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes that elevate team quality. • Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives. • Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and acting as point of contact for technical collaboration. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $230,000—$242,500 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,500 USD All other states $192,000—$202,500 USD

Design and operate scalable platforms integrating machine learning and data pipelines in production. | Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in software engineering with backend and cloud infrastructure experience. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Digital Twin Platform team at Instacart is responsible for understanding exactly what is on store shelves at all times. Inventory estimates power some of the most important product experiences at Instacart, from search and advertising to logistics and fulfillment. We own the end-to-end data supply chain — from ingestion and integration of partner data sources to collecting inventory observations, to model development, serving, and integrations across our products. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our team. You will be instrumental in building our next generation platforms for understanding where products are in a store — think: platforms that provide the precision and depth of a smart warehouse but scaled to every local store. In close collaboration with machine learning engineers, computer vision engineers, product teams, and data scientists, you will enable sophisticated models and data collection platforms to scale while driving new product innovation. This is a chance to roll up your sleeves with a team that goes far together, solves creatively, and grows the pie by making the entire grocery ecosystem more efficient. We move quickly, work through ambiguity, and focus on delivering real impact for our customers, shoppers, retailers, and the broader business. You can read more about some of the things our team is doing here: democratizing AI for grocers of all sizes and advancing real-time shelf intelligence. About the Job Design, build, and operate the platforms and services that power a real-time understanding of products on store shelves across our network. Develop data ingestion, processing, and serving systems that combine partner data, inventory observations, and machine learning outputs into a reliable, scalable digital twin. Collaborate closely with machine learning engineers, computer vision engineers, product teams, and data scientists to move models and data pipelines from research to production. Take on ambiguous, large-scale challenges across mapping, inventory, logistics, and computer vision, balancing fast delivery with long-term architectural quality. Contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement, where we serve our users generously, put ideas on the table with transparency, and go far together as a team. About You Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems. Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go, and experience with SQL. Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Track record of shipping production software with a focus on reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability. Preferred Qualifications Experience with machine learning infrastructure, computer vision, image-based data pipelines, or annotation platforms. Experience with real-time, streaming, or geospatial services and systems in production. Experience building data-intensive products in e-commerce, retail, logistics, or grocery. Experience with edge devices, IoT, or hardware-software integration. Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, or Airflow. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $199,000—$210,000 USD WA $191,000—$201,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $183,000—$193,000 USD All other states $166,000—$175,000 USD

Lead multi-team initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, and correctness of the Orders platform and define technical strategy for order workflows. | 10+ years experience designing and operating large-scale backend or platform systems with proficiency in Go, Java, or Python. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Commerce Platform organization at Instacart is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational platform initiatives on the Orders Platform team. The Orders platform is the orchestration layer for commerce at Instacart, coordinating the end-to-end lifecycle of every order across customers, shoppers, retailers, payments, fulfillment systems, and partner integrations at scale. In this role, you will help define and drive the architectural strategy for systems that support hundreds of millions of transactions each year. You will work on the reliability, correctness, scalability, and auditability of order workflows across diverse use cases and fulfillment models, while unlocking new experiences for customers, shoppers, retailers, and partners. The Orders Platform team sits at the center of Instacart’s commerce stack, which means this role requires deep technical judgment, strong cross-functional partnership, and a willingness to solve complex problems across many domains. If you are a big-picture thinker who enjoys owning high-impact systems, leading multi-team initiatives, and building durable platforms that help teams move faster and more safely, this role is for you. Instacart is a collaborative, fast-paced environment where engineers are encouraged to act like owners, communicate transparently, and build solutions that help the broader ecosystem succeed. You will partner with teams across Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, and business functions to deliver platform capabilities that can scale with Instacart’s evolving commerce experiences. About the Job Lead multi-team initiatives that improve the reliability, scalability, and correctness of the Orders platform across checkout, payments, fulfillment, post-order workflows, and partner integrations. Define and drive the technical strategy for the order lifecycle, including modeling and evolving order state machines, guarantees, and service contracts to support new products, fulfillment models, and surfaces while maintaining strong service expectations and data integrity. Architect and evolve event-driven, idempotent workflows for core order flows such as creation, updates, cancellations, substitutions, payments, and refunds, ensuring clear invariants, observability, and auditable histories across services. Partner closely with engineering and cross-functional teams across Payments, Fulfillment, Catalog, Ads, Fraud and Identity, Data, and Infrastructure to deliver durable platform capabilities that other product teams can build on safely and quickly. Modernize and extend the platform through capabilities such as improved consistency models, multi-tenant abstractions, stronger failure isolation, and secure integrations that increase flexibility and operability at scale. Design platform capabilities that support agentic commerce, including policy-driven automated workflows, secure APIs, and well-defined tools that make Orders safely addressable by agents and AI systems. Raise the technical bar by leading design reviews, coaching engineers, contributing hands-on to critical code paths, and helping teams make sound technical decisions through design spikes, launches, and cross-team efforts. About You Minimum Qualifications 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale backend or platform systems in production environments. Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives end to end, including architecture, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operations. Strong foundation in distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and high-volume APIs, including hands-on experience with event-driven patterns and idempotent workflows. Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Go, Java, or Python. Production experience with relational and NoSQL data stores. Experience operating mission-critical services, including on-call ownership, service-level objectives or error budgets, performance tuning, incident management, and post-incident reviews. Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design exploration, implementation, code review, or code quality. Strong communication skills with experience partnering effectively with senior engineers, Product, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on technical direction. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience building payments, orders, logistics, or other high-integrity transactional platforms, including policy-driven entitlements and consistency or availability trade-offs. Deep expertise with asynchronous workflows and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, including at-least-once or exactly-once processing and outbox patterns. Experience integrating with diverse internal services and external partners, with clear ownership of API contracts, data models, service expectations, and operational readiness. Success building or evolving multi-tenant, extensible platforms that enable rapid onboarding of new product flows, payment methods, incentive types, or partner integrations. Strong observability and reliability engineering practices, including tracing, metrics, alerting, circuit breaking, and chaos testing. Experience with secure-by-default service design, including tokenization, secrets management, PCI considerations, or PII considerations. Interest in applying AI and agentic patterns to platform engineering work in a safe, reliable, and measurable way. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $265,000—$279,500 USD WA $254,000—$268,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $243,000—$256,500 USD All other states $221,000—$233,000 USD

Identify and mitigate risks in product and cloud infrastructure, develop secure engineering systems, and mentor engineers. | 5+ years security engineering experience with Python, Go, or TypeScript, hands-on IaC experience, and strong SaaS threat model understanding. | We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The CAPS team at Instacart is responsible for securing Cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and Product surfaces. We work closely with all other engineering teams, enabling them to roll out new product features and internal productivity systems in a secure way. Members of the CAPS team assume ownership of security risks and find solutions that mitigate whole classes of vulnerabilities. About the Job Identify business-critical risks present within Instacart’s product and infrastructure. Analyze the risks and define remediation strategies with actionable roadmaps. Develop scalable systems to enable and encourage secure engineering patterns. Own and drive systemic improvements across engineering and other functions. Coach and mentor other engineers within the organization. About You Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Offensive Security roles. 3+ years of experience performing code reviews and design reviews. Proficiency in at least one production language (Python, Go, or TypeScript) sufficient to build internal tooling. Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent). Knowledge of security bug classes and best practice remediation techniques. Understanding of SaaS architectures, common risks, and threat models. Experience with Variant Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, or Secure Frameworks. Preferred Qualifications Track record of security research, competitive hacking, or OSS contributions. Policy-as-code authoring at organization scope (OPA/Rego, Terraform Sentinel/equivalent) with disciplined test coverage and rollout/grandfathering strategies. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) at scale — Wiz/Prisma/equivalent, including remediation programs spanning IaC findings and live threat findings (C2, credential abuse), plus running scan infrastructure across CI fleets. #LI-Remote 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. 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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ $230,000—$242,000 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,000 USD All other states $192,000—$202,000 USD