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We're transforming the grocery industry
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.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
At Instacart, our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Millions of customers every week use Instacart to buy their groceries online, and the Catalog Interfaces team is building the critical data models and access patterns that underpin all of the myriad of ways that data is used across Instacart to support our customers and partners
About the Team
The Catalog Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that the best possible representation of products is available to customers, shoppers, and brands. They achieve this by ingesting data from retailers, third parties, and brands, and processing it to create world class and comprehensive product listings. The team handles various aspects of catalog management, including data acquisition, product ingestion, inventory management, quality assurance, and enrichment of product attributes. Our systems process approximately 8 billion updates each day.
The Catalog Interfaces engineering team plays a critical role in defining how catalog data is structured and standardized for consistent, reliable, timely, and accurate product information. This is a high impact, high visibility role owning essential Catalog data models across all of Instacart’s offerings. You will enable efficient, high-quality services that power the platform behind every item browsed, discovered, or purchased at Instacart.
About the Role
As Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a team of talented software engineers to design and operate high throughput, low‑latency systems that deliver the most accurate product data to every Instacart experience—from shopper apps and retailer tools to cutting‑edge AI models. You will own Snowflake tables and views used by downstream teams and develop interfaces that power Instacart’s AI‑first commerce experiences.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Data, Ads, Retailer Platform, and Infrastructure teams to define technical strategy and simplify data access. This role is based in Canada (Toronto preferred) but is open to remote work across Canada in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia..
If you’re excited by distributed systems at massive scale, real‑time data challenges, and opportunities to shape the future of AI‑powered commerce, this team offers a chance for outsized impact in a fast‑paced environment
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores including Whole Foods, Safeway, Costco, Mariano's and many more, as well as being able to mix items from multiple stores into one order. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is nothing short of magical. We are located in San Francisco, and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. Check out www.instacart.com/locations to see our delivery coverage maps.
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