Senior Software Engineer II, (ML/AI Platform)

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