[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Retailer Platform @Instacart

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of ~12 engineers in the Enterprise Foundations engineering team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading, coaching, and growing a senior-skewed team across multiple workstreams.
• Setting clear architectural and execution direction.
• Developing talent and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Maintaining the unifying technical thesis for the team, focusing on multi-tenancy, data isolation, configuration-driven release management, and per-retailer extensibility.
• Driving the consolidation of bespoke retailer-vertical services onto unified Instacart platform rails.
• Partnering with ML and Data Engineering on long-term enterprise data platform compliance.
• Delivering self-service tooling, including sandbox environments and configuration interfaces.
• Representing technical and product trade-offs across multiple engineering and product organizations.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, high-growth environments.
• Proven cross-functional leadership influencing outcomes across multiple engineering and product organizations.
• Experience leading multi-team architectural transitions such as consolidation or data isolation.
• 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.

Requirements

• Direct domain experience in commerce platforms, omnichannel retail, OMS, POS, or connected-store technology.
• Track record of building multi-tenant platforms serving multiple internal or external customers.
• Experience partnering with ML and Data Engineering teams on data platform compliance.
• Background scaling enterprise integrations and managing partner-facing technical relationships.
• Experience leading other engineering managers and growing two-layer organizations.

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First remote work policy.
• Base pay range for successful candidates in Canada: $229,000 — $241,500 CAD.
• Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.