Staff Software Engineer, Bazel & Go

Instacart

Posted 14d ago

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Lead the technical direction for Instacart's Bazel build system
Lead the technical direction for our Go platform, frameworks, standard libraries, service scaffolding, and patterns
Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve build times, CI reliability, and the local development loop
Own the developer experience metrics for the systems you lead
Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out changes
Set the technical bar for the systems you own on reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics
Mentor engineers in the team and the broader engineering org
Represent the team in cross-org technical discussions on build, CI/CD, and backend platform direction

10+ years of software development experience
Deep, hands-on expertise with Bazel, including remote caching, remote build execution (RBE), and performance tuning of large build graphs
Strong production experience writing and operating Go services at scale
Experience with structuring large Go codebases (frameworks, dependency management, testing patterns, shared libraries)
Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact on developer velocity, build performance, or CI reliability
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems
Strong technical leadership, driving direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing without direct authority

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
Experience migrating a large codebase or monorepo to Bazel, or evolving an existing Bazel setup through major upgrades
Experience owning or contributing to a Go framework, standard library, or service scaffolding used by a large engineering org
Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics (build times, cache hit rates, CI reliability, local dev loop)
Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations

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