Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Foundations
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.
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OVERVIEW
The Cloud Foundations team at Instacart owns all of the foundational infrastructure that other Engineering teams use to run their services, including our public cloud providers, our edge and ingress systems, secrets management, and observability, along with IAM and our Infrastructure as Code model. We also provide the tooling for ongoing economic analysis and optimization of our cloud spend. Instacart is a cloud-native company so this team’s work is at the heart of everything we do.
We are looking for experienced infrastructure engineers who want to solve problems with software and build the best possible foundation for Instacart’s critical services!
ABOUT THE JOB
- Support and extend our public cloud infrastructure and build tooling to help other teams around Engineering more easily consume and manage their public cloud resources.
- Support and extend our processes and tooling for Infrastructure as Code.
- Manage our security and permissions models as they apply to public cloud resources.
- Support and extend our observability stack that provides Engineering teams with the visibility they need to manage their services successfully.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical Instacart services.
ABOUT YOU
- You have 5+ years of experience in an Infrastructure or SRE role in a production operations context on a public cloud foundation.
- You have experience solving infrastructure problems with software.
- You have experience in a cloud-native environment using Infrastructure as Code.
- You’ve built and run systems for high availability and resilience.
- You have strong technical knowledge of public cloud infrastructure in general (and AWS in specific), distributed systems, and reliability practices.
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Accommodations & Accessibility
At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.