Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform
$196,000–$207,000 year
Remote · United States or Canada
Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform at Instacart leads the design and delivery of the Go-based platform powering services across marketplace, advertising, partner, and fulfillment domains. You will build platform components, define engineering standards for APIs, RPC/gRPC, configuration, observability, security, and resiliency, and improve pipelines and automation to reduce toil. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and scalability with hands-on work, collaboration with SRE and security teams, service migrations, and on-call rotations. Remote-friendly across the U.S. and Canada, with opportunities for broader impact and ownership across multiple product teams.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building distributed systems or platforms
- 3+ years of hands-on production experience with Go (designing, coding, testing, and operating Go services/libraries)
- Proficiency with service-oriented architectures using gRPC and/or REST, including API design, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Experience operating services on a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerization, deployment, and runtime configuration
- Strong foundations in reliability and performance: observability (metrics, logs, traces), profiling, benchmarking, and incident/on-call experience
- Track record of owning platform components (frameworks, SDKs, or shared libraries) used by multiple teams, including documentation and rollout
- Proficiency with CI/CD and build systems (e.g., Go modules, build caching, automated testing) to improve developer productivity and release quality
- Working knowledge of service security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, transport security) and resilient patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
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