Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform SRE

Summary

Join Instacart's Backend Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer and play a key role in ensuring the reliability and performance of customer-facing services and internal tools. You will take ownership in high-pressure situations, responding to on-call incidents and improving system reliability. Your work will directly impact millions of users, helping to build a more reliable and performant platform at scale. You will also drive continuous improvement and enhance the architectural framework to increase delivery speed and facilitate swift product development. Implement new processes to boost operational excellence, making use of AI tools to accelerate development. This role offers flexibility to work remotely.

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

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants