As a Staff Software Engineer on Developer Experience, you will lead two of the pillars that Instacart engineering is built on: Bazel (our build system) and Go (one of our core backend languages). You ...
As a Staff Software Engineer on Developer Experience, you will lead two of the pillars that Instacart engineering is built on: Bazel (our build system) and Go (one of our core backend languages). You ...
Experience with the Go programming language and concurrent/parallel processing patterns * Experience with TypeScript and Angular framework for web application development * Experience with stream ...
Experience with the Go programming language and concurrent/parallel processing patterns * Experience with TypeScript and Angular framework for web application development * Experience with stream ...
Experience with the Go programming language and concurrent/parallel processing patterns * Experience with TypeScript and Angular framework for web application development * Experience with stream ...
Experience with the Go programming language and concurrent/parallel processing patterns * Experience with TypeScript and Angular framework for web application development * Experience with stream ...
$139K - $181K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
$139K - $181K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
$142K - $184K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
$142K - $184K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Forward Deployed Engineer
Dallas, TX · On-site
$150 - $190/hr
Python Programming * Go Programming * C++ Programming * Linux Internals * Containerization * Debugging Complex Routing * Production-Grade Tool Development Soft Skills * Problem Solving
Forward Deployed Engineer
Dallas, TX · On-site
$150 - $190/hr
Python Programming * Go Programming * C++ Programming * Linux Internals * Containerization * Debugging Complex Routing * Production-Grade Tool Development Soft Skills * Problem Solving
Senior AI/ML Engineer - Autonomy CI Platform
California, MO · On-site
$120 - $190/hr
Proficient in programming languages such as Go and Python, with a focus on software engineering best practices and effective collaboration across teams. Highest-signal resume keywords * Cloud ...
Senior AI/ML Engineer - Autonomy CI Platform
California, MO · On-site
$120 - $190/hr
Proficient in programming languages such as Go and Python, with a focus on software engineering best practices and effective collaboration across teams. Highest-signal resume keywords * Cloud ...
NY · On-site
$140 - $190/hr
Go Programming * Rust Programming * TypeScript * React * Angular * Kafka * NATS * MQTT * GRPC * Pulsar Certifications & Qualifications * Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering * Master's Degree in ...
... source Go community -Interact with internal and external developers and communities -Work with the toolchain team and other engineering teams as well as the community on senior-level feature ...
... source Go community -Interact with internal and external developers and communities -Work with the toolchain team and other engineering teams as well as the community on senior-level feature ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
West Menlo Park, CA · On-site
$141K - $183K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
West Menlo Park, CA · On-site
$141K - $183K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$137K - $178K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$137K - $178K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Foster City, CA · On-site
$140K - $182K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Foster City, CA · On-site
$140K - $182K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Golang Developer
Frisco, TX · On-site
Required Technical Skills Go Programming Expertise * Strong software engineering experience in Go (Golang). * Deep understanding of: * Goroutines * Channels * Concurrency patterns * Memory management
Golang Developer
Frisco, TX · On-site
Required Technical Skills Go Programming Expertise * Strong software engineering experience in Go (Golang). * Deep understanding of: * Goroutines * Channels * Concurrency patterns * Memory management
Infrastructure engineer
$122K - $160K/yr
Practical experience with the Go programming language is desired. Practical experience building systems on a public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCE, etc.) is desired. Practical experience building ...
Infrastructure engineer
$122K - $160K/yr
Practical experience with the Go programming language is desired. Practical experience building systems on a public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCE, etc.) is desired. Practical experience building ...
Autonomy Software Engineer
Dayton, OH · On-site
... programming language experience (e.g., C/C++, GO, Rust, Java, C#) • Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S ...
Autonomy Software Engineer
Dayton, OH · On-site
... programming language experience (e.g., C/C++, GO, Rust, Java, C#) • Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Newark, CA · On-site
$135K - $176K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Newark, CA · On-site
$135K - $176K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Half Moon Bay, CA · On-site
$136K - $177K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Half Moon Bay, CA · On-site
$136K - $177K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
$117K - $152K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
$117K - $152K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Union City, CA · On-site
$137K - $178K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
Union City, CA · On-site
$137K - $178K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
San Carlos, CA · On-site
$145K - $189K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
Senior Java Backend Developer
San Carlos, CA · On-site
$145K - $189K/yr
Experience with Go programming. * Python scripting experience. * Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. * Knowledge of Service Mesh technologies. * Experience with cloud ...
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Instacart rating
7.1
Based on 31 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
28th of 64 rated delivery companies
Job description
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 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, developer onboarding, and local development environments. Our success is measured in developer velocity: how quickly an engineer can take an idea from concept to production.
As a Staff Software Engineer on Developer Experience, you will lead two of the pillars that Instacart engineering is built on: Bazel (our build system) and Go (one of our core backend languages). You will own the technical direction for how thousands of daily builds run and how our Go services are structured, from remote build execution and caching to the frameworks, libraries, and patterns Go engineers use every day. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll write code, set architectural direction, and partner across the org to move engineering-wide metrics on build performance, CI reliability, and developer velocity.
About the Job
- Lead the technical direction for Instacart's Bazel build system, including remote caching, remote build execution (RBE), build performance, and the developer-facing ergonomics of the build.
- Lead the technical direction for our Go platform, frameworks, standard libraries, service scaffolding, and patterns that Go engineers across Instacart depend on.
- Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve build times, CI reliability, and the local development loop for engineers working in Bazel and Go.
- Own the developer experience metrics for the systems you lead, define what "good" looks like, instrument it, and use the data to prioritize investment.
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out changes to the build system and Go platform with minimal disruption.
- Set the technical bar for the systems you own on reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics.
- Mentor engineers in the team and the broader engineering org; grow the community of Bazel and Go experts at Instacart.
- Represent the team in cross-org technical discussions on build, CI/CD, and backend platform direction.
- A hands-on technical leader who is equally comfortable in a Bazel BUILD file, a Go service, and a design doc.
- Metrics-driven, You use build times, cache hit rates, CI reliability, 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 expertise with Bazel, including remote caching, remote build execution (RBE), and performance tuning of large build graphs.
- Strong production experience writing and operating Go services at scale, with a point of view on structuring large Go codebases (frameworks, dependency management, testing patterns, shared libraries).
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact on developer velocity, build performance, or CI reliability.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems.
- 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 migrating a large codebase or monorepo to Bazel, or evolving an existing Bazel setup through major upgrades.
- Experience owning or contributing to a Go framework, standard library, or service scaffolding used by a large engineering org.
- Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics (build times, cache hit rates, CI reliability, local dev loop).
- Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations.
#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
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About Instacart
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Instacart, based in San Francisco, CA, US, operates within the retail industry, specifically grocery delivery and pick-up service. It is recognized as a pioneer in this field, delivering fresh groceries from local stores directly to customers' doors. The company, which launched its services in 2012, continues to pioneer change in the online grocery shopping sector through its commitment to cutting-edge technology, new business ideas, and dedicated service.
Industry
Technology, communication and media
Company size
10,000+ Employees
Headquarters location
San Francisco, CA, US
Year founded
2012