Senior Engineering Manager, Storage Platform

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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.

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OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE TEAM -  Come join the leadership team of Instacart’s Infrastructure Pillar! The Storage Platform team is responsible for designing, building, and operating our next generation of storage solutions that the entire organization builds and runs on. You will be responsible for the long term architecture of these systems. As part of that you will be responsible for establishing the best platform components and leading the company to choose the right storage solutions for the problem domain. You will work closely with all of our internal tech pillars to help them scale and deliver their services. The Storage Platform team is also responsible for making sure we have high uptime and will work across all of Engineering to set up processes, policies, and automation to ensure our systems remain highly available & reliable. You will be the thought leader on operational best practices for storage

ABOUT THE JOB

• You build for our internal customers, define the roadmap and help prioritize work for your team, making difficult tradeoffs on design based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality software.
• You will provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support  and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems and tools your team builds.
• You will participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and …