About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Participate in monitoring systems and responding to alerts, escalating issues as needed.
- Assist in incident management, following established protocols and documenting steps.
- Help maintain and improve documentation for processes and procedures.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of automation scripts and tools.
- Learn and apply best practices in site reliability engineering.
- Support the deployment of applications and services, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to troubleshoot and tackle technical issues.
Requirements
- 2-4 years of Software engineering experience.
- Understanding of programming concepts and scripting languages.
- Strong interest in system administration and troubleshooting.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong sense of ownership on incident handling.
- Ability to work well in a team environment and communicate effectively.
- Eagerness to learn and grow in the field of Site Reliability Engineering.
- Preferred: Experience with Ruby or Go.
- Preferred: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
- Preferred: Previous SRE experience a plus.
Conditions
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location.
- For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
- CA, NY, CT, NJ: $160,000 — $169,000 USD
- WA: $154,000 — $162,500 USD
- OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $147,000 — $155,000 USD
- All other states: $133,000 — $140,500 USD