The opportunity
The Developer Experience team at Instacart is the force multiplier for our 1000+ engineers. We define and build the platforms, tools, and practices that enable Instacart engineers to ship high-quality software faster — from AI-powered code review to build infrastructure,…
What you'll do
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 that let engineers and AI agents validate changes end-to-end in parallel.
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 the platforms that let engineers run many AI sessions in parallel with humans on the loop.
Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve developer: velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and the local development loop.
What they're looking for
- 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.
