Senior Software Engineer II, Developer 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

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery, and behind every seamless customer experience is a world-class engineering organization building the systems that make it all possible. The Developer Experience team sits at the heart of that engineering organization, focused on empowering engineers across Instacart to do their best work — faster, more reliably, and with less friction.

As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Developer Experience team, you will play a critical role in shaping the internal tooling, infrastructure, and platforms that Instacart engineers depend on every day. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for an engineer who is energized by building for other builders — someone who understands that improving developer productivity at scale can have an outsized effect on what the entire company is able to ship.

About the Job

• Design, build, and maintain internal developer tooling, platforms, and infrastructure that improve the productivity, reliability, and experience of engineering teams across Instacart.
• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from scoping and architecture through implementation, rollout, and iteration — operating with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
• Identify friction points in the developer experience through data, feedback, and direct collaboration with engineering teams, and drive solutions that meaningfully reduce toil and improve velocity at scale.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team, participating in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions that shape how Instacart builds and scales its internal platforms.
• Thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift and where your ability to adapt quickly and make sound technical decisions under uncertainty is a genuine asset.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex technical systems in production environments.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages commonly used in platform or infrastructure contexts (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, Java, or similar).
• Experience building or contributing to developer tooling, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, or developer productivity infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects independently, including scoping, designing, and delivering solutions with cross-functional impact.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams and articulate technical trade-offs clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on a Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure team with a focus on improving engineering workflows at scale.
• Familiarity with observability tooling, build systems, or developer environment management (e.g., Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• Experience in a high-growth technology company where the pace of change is fast and the scope of technical challenges is broad.
• A track record of influencing engineering culture or best practices beyond your immediate team.

#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. 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.