Senior Software Engineering Manager, Logistics
Instacart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $216,000 - $289,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead, develop, and retain a team of 10+ software engineers; set goals, grow careers, and foster a healthy, inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Own multi-quarter roadmaps for core Serving surfaces (e.g., Dispatching and Assignments, Geospatial/Mapping, Service Options, Shopper Pay/Consumer Pricing, ML Foundations), delivering measurable reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency improvements.
- Partner closely with Logistics Foundations and adjacent Logistics teams to design platform capabilities and interfaces that unlock experimentation, speed, and long-term maintainability.
- Engage deeply in technical design and execution—review designs and code, drive architectural decisions, define SLOs, establish observability standards, and oversee on-call and incident response.
- Collaborate with PMs, data scientists, and enterprise partners to shape sustainable retailer customizations and marketplace policies that drive growth and operational efficiency.
- Prioritize and manage inbound requests across a horizontal surface area, creating clarity, sequencing complex programs, and delivering outcomes in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 4+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend services.
- Proven track record defining and delivering multi-quarter roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
- Experience designing, operating, and scaling services with defined SLOs, on-call ownership, robust observability, and incident response practices.
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (base pay range depending on location)
- Remote and flexible work arrangements
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringlarge-scale distributed backend servicestechnical designarchitectural decisionsSLOsobservability standardsincident responseroadmap deliveryperformance managementcareer development
Soft skills
leadershipteam developmentcommunicationcollaborationgoal settingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsadaptabilityinclusivityhigh-performance culture