Staff Corporate Engineer

Overview

Instacart's IT organisation empowers every employee to work securely, reliably, and at scale. We're looking for a Staff Corporate Engineer to define the technical strategy and architecture for our security-critical workforce platforms, including our Okta identity platform, device trust programme, and office networks across San Francisco, New York City, and Toronto.

In this role you will set the long-term technical direction for identity, access, and network infrastructure - establishing the architectural frameworks, engineering standards, and automation blueprints the team builds against. You will serve as the technical authority across Corporate Engineering and drive cross-functional alignment with Security Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Workplace, Compliance, and Help Desk. Your influence will extend beyond your immediate team, identifying high-impact initiatives and shaping how Instacart approaches workforce security and reliability at scale.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to think in systems, lead without authority, and make sound architectural decisions on high-stakes platforms. Remote-friendly within North America. Occasional travel to Instacart offices may be required (up to 10%).

About the Job

• Define and own the long-term identity architecture strategy for Instacart, setting the technical direction for our Okta identity platform including Okta Identity Governance (OIG), lifecycle management, SCIM provisioning, SSO integrations (SAML/OIDC), MFA, risk-based policies, and device trust. Establish the architectural patterns and governance frameworks the team builds against.
• Establish and own the IaC engineering standards and platform patterns for identity and access across Corporate Engineering; author the reusable Terraform frameworks, guardrails, and automation blueprints adopted by the team to achieve consistent, auditable, least-privilege provisioning at scale, integrated with HRIS and ITSM systems.
• Define Instacart's office network architecture strategy and target-state design across SF, NYC, and Toronto; drive the evolution to zero-trust segmentation, set observability and capacity standards, and guide vendor strategy across all office locations.
• Own the IT endpoint strategy for MDM (both Mac and Windows) to both implement and secure our workforce endpoints. Consider best in class endpoint management practises and replatform our systems where required.
• Serve as the technical authority for major IT incidents; own post-incident learning p