Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services that cater to the varied needs of the community. As a Senior Engineer on the ML/AI platform team, you will be responsible for building the internal platform that supports training and deploying AI models, enabling the entire organization to succeed.
Responsibilities:
- Excited to build platform-level tools, SDKs
- Ability to manage cross-cutting stakeholder relationships, prioritizing customer needs first
- Eager to navigate ambiguous, hairy, and technical problem spaces
- Eager to jump into domains, languages, and problem areas that might be new and unfamiliar
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- 1 year of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership
- Strong proficiency in maintaining high standards for production services
- Rapid coding skills and management of production services
- Experience with high scale throughput and distributed systems problems
- Strong communication skills and ability to contextualize problems across various audiences
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and involving the right stakeholders to address issues efficiently
- Experience building and shipping products to users
- Expertise building platforms and high scale infrastructure
- Visionary thinker capable of generating transformative ideas
- Prior experience working with AI Platforms like Ray is a plus