Engineering Manager, Catalog

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery, building the operating system for the grocery industry. The company offers grocery delivery and household goods, and provides flexible earnings opportunities to personal shoppers.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Catalog Enrichment team. This team builds the AI-native platform and pipelines that create, enrich, and maintain product attributes across a catalog of tens of millions of products from more than 100,000 retailer locations. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers building systems that blend large language models, classical inference, workflow orchestration, and human review into configurable pipelines that non-engineers can run. You will also own the ML-facing interfaces to catalog data, including policies that govern how attributes are sourced, shared, and licensed across downstream models and customer surfaces.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers who build the platform, pipelines, and interfaces that power catalog enrichment and ML access to catalog data.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap, balancing new platform investments with reliability, observability, and developer experience.
• Build and operate an AI-native enrichment platform that blends LLMs, classical ML, rules, workflow orchestration, and human review into pipelines non-engineers can configure and run.
• Drive the evolution toward autonomous pipeline construction, where users express goals in plain language and the system assembles, evaluates, and optimizes workflows.
• Own the ML-facing catalog data layer, including canonical product metadata and policy controls.
• Partner with ML, search, ads, commerce, and retailer teams to streamline data flows end to end.
• Advocate for clear, human-readable controls for source prioritization, rights management, licensing, and compliance.
• Boost developer and operator productivity via AI-assisted integration testing, investigation tooling, and on-call automation; set and meet SLAs on core attributes and model usage.
• Contribute hands-on to architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers as a people leader.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate production data or ML platforms, including both batch and streaming components.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration, with demonstrated build/buy/partner decision-making.
• Ownership of data quality, coverage, or compliance commitments, with examples of frameworks and processes used to meet them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with catalog, commerce, or product data platforms operating at large scale.
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, Flink) and running them in production.
• Experience shipping applied AI/ML features in production and understanding trade-offs across LLMs, classical ML, deterministic rules, and human review.
• Proven success partnering across ML, product, and operations.
• Familiarity with data governance, rights management, and licensing controls.
• Experience building pipeline builders, low-code/no-code tooling, or internal platforms used by non-engineers.
• Background in developer productivity tooling, including AI-assisted testing and investigation workflows.

Base pay range for Canadian-based candidates: CAN$196,000—$207,000 CAD. This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.

Apply through the Instacart careers page for this role.