Engineering Manager, Service Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE The Engineering Manager for the Service Platform team at Instacart is a critical role that will lead the team responsible for Instacart's core deployment and release engineering systems, including our canary infrastructure and end-to-end deployment tooling. This platform is foundational to the reliability of every service at Instacart, and your work will directly shape how developers safely, confidently, and efficiently ship code. WHAT YOU'LL DO As the Engineering Manager for the Service Platform team, you will set the vision, drive execution, and ensure that Instacart engineers have world-class tools to deploy, validate, and monitor their services. You will partner closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams to define and evolve a platform that enables fast iteration without compromising reliability. You will lead both product and critical reliability systems like Temporal/Canary/Deployments, and manage cross-cutting stakeholder relationships, prioritizing customer needs first. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need a strong product-focused background, with experience leading and managing people with an emphasis on designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. You will have a proven track record of launching and shipping high-impact products, and strong proficiency in maintaining high standards for production services. You will also have 7+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. WHY REMOTE Instacart is a Flex First team, which means that our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, a coffee shop, or anywhere else that suits them. This role is remote, and we offer highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. BENEFITS This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Instacart also offers a range of benefits, including highly market-competitive compensation, health plan, parental leave, education stipend, life insurance, and flexible schedule.