Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve developer velocity, CI reliability, pre-production health, and the local development loop.
• 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 platform changes with minimal disruption
• Set the technical bar for the systems you own on reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics.

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