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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 were building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If youre ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team Theres 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 workwhether its from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shopwhile staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacarts Database Platform Team builds and operates the managed database services that power shopping, fulfillment, payments, ads, and retailer experiences across our platform. We provide reliable, secure, and costefficient opensource data stores with a custom control plane that enables selfserve velocity for engineering teams while meeting strict availability and performance goals. We are hiring an Engineering Manager, Database Platform to lead a team focused on delivering worldclass database products (for example, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and keyvalue caches) at scale. In this role, youll partner closely with peers across Cloud Infrastructure, Security, SRE, Data, and application engineering to define the platform strategy, accelerate adoption, and land measurable cost savings through 2026 and beyond. This role open to candidates in the US (remote) or in Canada (Toronto preferred), across Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. If you thrive on building resilient distributed systems, enabling developer selfservice, and driving operational excellence in a fastmoving environment, wed love to talk. About the Job Own the endtoend strategy, roadmap, and execution for Instacarts managed database platform, delivering standardized, secure, and costefficient services across multiple cloud regions. Lead and develop a highperforming team of 5 engineers; hire, mentor, and create an, highownership culture that values reliability, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement. Design and operate multitenant database offerings with strong availability, scalability, and performance guarantees; define SLOs, mature oncall, 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 infrastructureascode. Partner with Security, SRE, Data Platform, and product engineering to migrate legacy systems, land welldesigned 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. About You Minimum Qualifications 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. Handson experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP) and infrastructureascode (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 pointintime recovery; strong performance tuning skills. Operational ownership of alwayson systems: defined SLOs/SLAs, participated in oncall 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 crossfunctional initiatives that span multiple stakeholder teams. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred Qualifications Experience designing or operating control planes and Kubernetes operators for databases; familiarity with Go is a plus. Deep knowledge of opensource databases and data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL internals, MySQL, Redis, or a distributed SQL/NoSQL system such as Vitess or CockroachDB). Background with multitenant 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 rightsizing and storage/performance tuning. Domain experience in ecommerce, marketplace, or other highthroughput transactional systems. An advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus. #LI-Remote Instacart provides highly marketcompetitive 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. For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CAN $196,000 $207,000 CAD #J-18808-Ljbffr