Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform SRE

Summary

Join Instacart's Backend Platform SRE team as a Senior Software Engineer and play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and performance of customer-facing services and internal tools. You will be responsible for responding to on-call incidents, resolving issues, and improving system reliability, directly impacting millions of users. This role involves driving continuous improvement, enhancing the architectural framework for faster delivery, implementing new processes for operational excellence, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate development. The team focuses on optimizing systems, building robust infrastructure, and automating tasks to scale systems that power millions of shoppers and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
• 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, and 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
• Strong proficiency in maintaining high standards for production services
• Rapid coding skills and management of high-traffic production services
• Experience with high scale throughput and distributed systems problems

Responsibilities

• Work on services through their entire life cycle, from design to deployment, operation, and improvement
• Help launch services by designing systems, building platforms, planning capacity, and reviewing launches
• Keep services running smoothly by monitoring availability, latency, and system performance
• Improve systems using automation and updates to make them faster and more reliable
• Respond to incidents efficiently to ensure services meet performance goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and deriving insights from complex data sets
• Experience working across teams to champion platform solutions
• Visionary thinker capable of generating transformative ideas
• Expertise in leveraging AI to enhance delivery velocity and efficiency
• Prior experience in SRE a bonus

Benefits

• 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
• CAN
• $165,000 — $183,000 CAD