Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise Foundations

Were 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.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview Enterprise Foundations is the engineering team responsible for the architectural and integration work that allows Instacarts Retailer Platform to scale across the worlds largest grocers

Our work spans omnichannel integrations — bringing products like FoodStorm catering and Caper Carts onto unified Instacart platform rails — enterprise extensibility (sandbox environments, configuration systems, retailer-facing tooling), and the cross-cutting data isolation work that allows Instacarts ML and Data Engineering teams to safely build per-retailer models on top of the platform

As Instacarts enterprise retail business expands to hundreds of partner brands and new international markets, this teams work is foundational to how the platform matures.

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this team of ~12 engineers Youll set the unifying technical thesis for the team — multi-tenancy, data isolation, configuration-driven release management, and per-retailer extensibility — and drive the consolidation work that replaces bespoke per-vertical services with shared platform rails

In close partnership with Connected Stores, Pro Services, Commerce, Data Engineering, and ML, youll broker the architectural and prioritization trade-offs that determine how Instacart serves enterprise retailers across multiple commerce surfaces.

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