Engineering Manager, Software, Catalog Enrichment

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers as a people leader.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate production data or ML platforms, including both batch and streaming components.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration, with demonstrated build/buy/partner decision-making.
• Ownership of data quality, coverage, or compliance commitments, with examples of frameworks and processes used to meet them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical work for diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with catalog, commerce, or product data platforms operating at large scale.
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, Flink) and running them in production.
• Experience shipping applied AI/ML features in production and understanding trade-offs across LLMs, classical ML, deterministic rules, and human review.
• Proven success partnering across ML, product, and operations to deliver outcomes that require alignment and shared goals.
• Familiarity with data governance, rights management, and licensing controls in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience building pipeline builders, low-code/no-code tooling, or internal platforms used by non-engineers.
• Background in developer productivity tooling, including AI-assisted testing and investigation workflows.
• Success operating in fast-growing environments where both the platform and team are evolving.

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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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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.…