Instacart

Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise Foundations

United States - Remote · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$265k-$280kDetected 5 days ago

RailsDistributed SystemsAWSGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData EngineeringRecruitingPerformance ManagementLeadership

About the role

Enterprise Foundations is the engineering team responsible for the architectural and integration work that allows Instacart's Retailer Platform to scale across the world's largest grocers.
In close partnership with Connected Stores, Pro Services, Commerce, Data Engineering, and ML, you'll broker the architectural and prioritization trade-offs that determine how Instacart serves enterprise retailers across multiple commerce surfaces.

Lead, coach, and grow a senior-skewed team of ~12 engineers across multiple workstreams; set clear architectural and execution direction, develop talent, and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Set and maintain the unifying technical thesis for the team - multi-tenancy, data isolation, configuration-driven release management, and per-retailer extensibility - ensuring related workstreams converge on shared solutions rather than parallel implementations.
Drive consolidation of bespoke retailer-vertical services - catering order management, smart-cart backend logic, kiosk integrations, in-store mobile - onto unified Instacart platform rails, so each surface inherits Instacart's ranking, search, recommendations, and fulfillment.
Partner with ML and Data Engineering on long-term enterprise data platform compliance for our ML systems, ensuring per-retailer model training has the data, signals, and isolation it needs.
Deliver self-service tooling - including sandbox environments, configuration interfaces, and retailer-facing extensibility - that lets retailers and internal teams ship without engineering bottlenecks.
Represent technical and product trade-offs across multiple engineering and product organizations whose roadmaps and integration commitments evolve in real time; broker resourcing decisions, drive clarity in ambiguous scope, and ensure engineering investment stays aligned with committed work.

8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams delivering platform or infrastructure products in a B2B or enterprise context.
Experience leading teams of 10+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development of senior individual contributors.
Proven cross-functional leadership influencing outcomes across multiple engineering and product organizations, including comfort using structured escalation to unblock multi-team initiatives.
Technical proficiency in distributed systems, API/SDK design, and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or GCP).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Direct domain experience in commerce platforms, omnichannel retail, OMS, POS, catering systems, or connected-store / in-store technology.
Experience partnering with ML and Data Engineering teams on data platform compliance, model training infrastructure, or data isolation initiatives.
Experience leading other engineering managers and growing two-layer organizations.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.

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