Lead Cloud Engineer, Tooling

Instacart is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer, Tooling to join our fully remote team in the United States. As a Lead Cloud Engineer, Tooling, you'll keep our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and secure. This is a full-time, work-from-home role open to candidates across the US (Remote — US (East Coast)). About the role You'll keep our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and secure, partnering with a friendly, distributed team across US time zones. We care about outcomes over hours and give you the autonomy, tools, and support to do your best work from home. What you'll do: • Monitor systems and respond to incidents • Improve observability, alerting, and reliability • Automate deployments and reduce operational toil • Partner with engineering on scalability and security • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code What we offer: • Paid parental leave • 100% remote, work-from-anywhere-in-the-US culture • Flexible working hours across US time zones • Home office and wellness stipends • Competitive salary and meaningful equity How we work We're remote-first and async-friendly. Expect clear documentation, regular feedback, supportive teammates, and real opportunities to grow your career. Instacart is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

Minimum qualifications: • 7+ years of experience, including leading teams or projects • Strong troubleshooting skills • Hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar • On-call and incident response experience • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure Nice to have: • A growth mindset and eagerness to keep learning • A track record of taking ownership and shipping independently