Senior Engineering Manager, Core Data - Instacart

Overview

About The Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Core Data Engineering team at Instacart, you will be leading the engineering team that is responsible for building and maintaining the most critical company-wide datasets. In this role, you will also be interfacing with many engineering, product, data science, and analytics leaders across the company to design and develop high quality, trustworthy data.

About The Team

Core Data Engineering is part of the Infrastructure Engineering pillar, working closely with data engineers, data scientists and senior leaders across the company on developing and standardizing critical company-wide datasets. Our team also collaborates closely with other data infrastructure teams on designing and building key data platforms, systems and tools to make everyone at Instacart more productive with data.

About The Job

In your role as Senior Engineering Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Define, communicate, and drive the technical strategy for the team that supports the product strategy and key bets for the company, including new technical investments.
• Drive high-quality execution of key business outcomes of the team by overseeing the roadmap and enabling technical and product decisions. 
• Create and ensure the adoption of best practices and engineering standards to build highly scalable and reliable engineering systems. 
• Foster strong collaboration and working model with peers and different stakeholder teams across Instacart including Product, Engineering Data Science, and Finance.
• Mentor and support team members for personal and professional growth.
• Lead the recruitment and hiring processes to build a high-performing team.
  
  

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record as a hands-on technical leader, preferably at a Staff+ level in a similar industry.
• 2+ years of experience managing teams of 10+ software engineers
• Strong background in backend development; experience with web apps  and mobile is advantageous.
• Ability to craft and execute strategic engineering roadmaps  that align with business objectives.
• Highly structured and proactive communication capabilities.
• Experience in staffing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams to success.
• Experience working with product managers, EM peers, and senior ICs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effective cross-functional leadership.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• Prior experience in managing engineering teams that oversee mission critical business systems.