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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Bazel & Go - **Company:** Instacart - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $243,000.0 - $279,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Caching, Backend, Information Technology - **Published:** July 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1304d56db5e0c19e ## About the Role * A hands-on technical leader who is equally comfortable in a Bazel BUILD file, a Go service, and a design doc. * Metrics-driven, You use build times, cache hit rates, CI reliability, and developer feedback to guide where to invest. * A multiplier. You make the engineers around you more effective through mentorship, clear technical writing, and pragmatic guidance. * Comfortable driving cross-team change. You can build consensus for a migration or a platform shift and see it through to adoption., * 10+ years of software development experience. * Deep, hands-on expertise with Bazel, including remote caching, remote build execution (RBE), and performance tuning of large build graphs. * Strong production experience writing and operating Go services at scale, with a point of view on structuring large Go codebases (frameworks, dependency management, testing patterns, shared libraries). * Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable impact on developer velocity, build performance, or CI reliability. * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems. * Strong technical leadership, driving direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing without direct authority., * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience. * Experience migrating a large codebase or monorepo to Bazel, or evolving an existing Bazel setup through major upgrades. * Experience owning or contributing to a Go framework, standard library, or service scaffolding used by a large engineering org. * Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics (build times, cache hit rates, CI reliability, local dev loop). * Experience at high-growth companies operating developer infrastructure for large engineering organizations. ## Description * Lead the technical direction for Instacart's Bazel build system, including remote caching, remote build execution (RBE), build performance, and the developer-facing ergonomics of the build. * Lead the technical direction for our Go platform, frameworks, standard libraries, service scaffolding, and patterns that Go engineers across Instacart depend on. * Design and drive multi-quarter initiatives that measurably improve build times, CI reliability, and the local development loop for engineers working in Bazel and Go. * Own the developer experience metrics for the systems you lead, define what "good" looks like, instrument it, and use the data to prioritize investment. * Partner with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams to roll out changes to the build system and Go platform with minimal disruption. * Set the technical bar for the systems you own on reliability, performance, upgrade cadence, and developer ergonomics. * Mentor engineers in the team and the broader engineering org; grow the community of Bazel and Go experts at Instacart. * Represent the team in cross-org technical discussions on build, CI/CD, and backend platform direction. ## Related Videos - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [HTTP headers that make your website go faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1676-http-headers-that-make-your-website-go-faster) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Green Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/592-green-cloud-computing) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Event based cache invalidation in GraphQL](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/433-event-based-cache-invalidation-in-graphql) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 131 - AI'm not sure about OSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/472-dev-digest-131-ai-m-not-sure-about-oss) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)