Instacart

Senior IT Systems Engineer

Remote US
USD 116k - 185k
Python AWS GCP Azure Puppet Ansible Terraform API
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Description

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

We are looking to add a Senior IT Systems Engineer to consolidate and standardize our overall IT architecture, build and adapt tools for process automation, implement integrations, and help us scale to the next level. The ITSE will function as an architect and technical lead for large corporate IT projects. This includes automation, IT cloud infrastructure, security, and employee lifecycle.

This is an opportunity to strategically impact the IT landscape at a growing company!

About the Team

The Instacart IT Infrastructure team builds and supports the technologies that empower our employees in North America and beyond. Our work impacts new hires, departing employees, and everyone in-between. We are passionate about the user experience and love building scalable services.

 

ABOUT THE JOB

  • Partner with IT leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to scope, architect and implement holistic solutions that solve critical business challenges
  • Identify and solve inefficient processes in areas like user lifecycle management, SaaS app provisioning, security, and licensing
  • Create technical designs, stand up new services, then knowledge transfer with other members of IT who will be maintaining these services
  • Build tools and services to empower IT, Security, and other partner teams
  • Find the best, scalable technical solutions for the Instacart corporate environment to solve existing and future business problems
  • Write code to create integrations between disparate cloud services using APIs
  • Own and manage business critical cloud infrastructure and applications
  • Work with Security and Compliance teams to support compliance efforts
  • Participate in an on-call rotation

 

ABOUT YOU

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of demonstrated experience and proficiency with at least one modern scripting language (Python preferred)
  • 3+ years of experience interacting with SaaS/PaaS/IaaS APIs
  • 3+ years of managing, developing integrations for, and building tools for Okta or a similar IdP
  • 2+ years of managing and developing tooling for AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Strong written, oral communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated success automating things and designing for scale
  • Experience in high-growth, fast-paced startup environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of managing fleets of devices or servers programmatically (eg open source configuration management tools like Puppet or Ansible, or commercial tools like Jamf or Intune)
  • 2+ years of experience administering Azure AD, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, or a similar directory service
  • 2+ years developing tooling for a VDI environment (eg, VMware, AWS Workspaces)
  • Demonstrated experience with virtual networking in environments like AWS or GCP
  • Demonstrated experience using infrastructure-as-code tooling (eg Terraform) to deploy servers/services
  • Experience implementing low-code solutions via tools such as Okta Workflows or Workato
  • Okta Certified Administrator or Developer certification

#LI-Remote

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.

CA, NY, CT, NJ
$140,000$185,000 USD
WA
$134,000$177,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$128,000$170,000 USD
All other states
$116,600$154,000 USD

Accommodations & Accessibility

At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.

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