Senior Software Engineer II, (ML/AI Platform)
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.
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
About the Role
As a Senior Engineer on the ML/AI platform team, you will play a key role in building the internal platform which supports training and deploying AI models across the entire organization. You’ll take ownership of defining the platform to enable AI model fine-tuning and batch inference by building the SDKs and supporting the infra to support these unique workloads. We are looking for someone with high ownership and the ability to be a leader in the space.
About the Team
At Instacart, the ML/AI Platform team is a critical part of enabling the business across all areas. From owning the online/offline feature store to the serving and training layer, our team enables the entire business to succeed. We take pride in having extreme levels of ownership and high levels of collaboration. You will be working closely with seasoned engineers and leaders across the company to drive specific use cases end to end. Our work directly impacts the success of Instacart.
About the Job
- Excited to build platform-level tools, SDKs
- Ability to manage cross-cutting stakeholder relationships, prioritizing customer needs first
- Eager to navigate ambiguous, hairy, and technical problem spaces
- Eager to jump into domains, languages, and problem areas that might be new and unfamiliar
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, and 1 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
- Strong proficiency in maintaining high standards for production services
- Rapid coding skills and management of production services
- Experience with high scale throughput and distributed systems problems
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong communication skills and ability to contextualize problems across various audiences
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and involving the right stakeholders to address issues efficiently
- Experience building and shipping products to users
- Expertise building platforms and high scale infrastructure
- Visionary thinker capable of generating transformative ideas
- Prior experience working with AI Platforms like Ray is a plus
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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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Instacart is an American delivery company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada accessible via a website and mobile app. The company has partnerships with 1,400 retail banners comprising 80,000 stores.
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