Instacart · 14 hours ago
Software Engineering Manager, Database Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$230K/yr - $242K/yr
8+ years expInstacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services that customers rely on for grocery delivery. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Database Platform Team to lead the development of managed database services, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while fostering a high-performing engineering culture.
Delivery ServiceE-CommerceGroceryShopping
Responsibilities
Own the end‑to‑end strategy, roadmap, and execution for Instacart’s managed database platform, delivering standardized, secure, and cost‑efficient services across multiple cloud regions
Lead and develop a high‑performing team of 5 engineers; hire, mentor, and create an inclusive, high‑ownership culture that values reliability, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement
Design and operate multi‑tenant database offerings with strong availability, scalability, and performance guarantees; define SLOs, mature on‑call, and drive incident response excellence
Build automation and control planes for provisioning, schema and version management, scaling, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and access controls using infrastructure‑as‑code
Partner with Security, SRE, Data Platform, and product engineering to migrate legacy systems, land well‑designed API and access patterns, and accelerate safe platform adoption
Deliver meaningful cost outcomes by optimizing instance sizing, storage tiers, connection patterns, and performance; establish transparent cost reporting and guardrails
Establish best practices in observability, testing, CI/CD, change management, and resilience verification to raise the reliability bar across all database products
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing software/infrastructure engineers as a people leader
5+ years building and operating production database platforms or services at scale (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL), including automation for provisioning, upgrades, and lifecycle management
Hands‑on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP) and infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform); experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) or database operators
Expertise with high availability and disaster recovery for relational databases, including replication, backup/restore, and point‑in‑time recovery; strong performance tuning skills
Operational ownership of always‑on systems: defined SLOs/SLAs, participated in on‑call rotations, led incident response, and delivered postmortem improvements
Security experience implementing RBAC, encryption in transit/at rest, secrets management, and audit logging for regulated environments
Proven ability to define and deliver a platform roadmap and to lead cross‑functional initiatives that span multiple stakeholder teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience designing or operating control planes and Kubernetes operators for databases; familiarity with Go is a plus
Deep knowledge of open‑source databases and data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL internals, MySQL, Redis, or a distributed SQL/NoSQL system such as Vitess or CockroachDB)
Background with multi‑tenant architectures, sharding, schema/version management, change data capture, and safe migration patterns with minimal downtime
Strong observability and reliability practice (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and experience with resilience testing
Demonstrated cost optimization results in cloud database environments, including workload right‑sizing and storage/performance tuning
Domain experience in e‑commerce, marketplace, or other high‑throughput transactional systems
An advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus
Benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Company
Instacart
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.92BKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceTiger Global ManagementD1 Capital Partners
2023-09-19IPO
2021-11-01Private Equity· $232M
2021-09-05Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Chris Rogers
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Leonardo
Co-Founder
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