Senior Engineering Manager, Search

Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a newly dedicated Search engineering team, owning strategy and execution for Single-Retailer Search (SRS), Cross-Retailer Search (XRS), search suggestions and typeahead, and the whitelabel search provided to Storefront Pro retailers. This is a heavily ML-weighted team operating one of Instacart's largest revenue surfaces, at the frontier of applied search and ranking. Remote US. Salary: $221,000–$279,500 USD (varies by state).

• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams, with minimum 10+ years of total engineering experience. • Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems, as a manager or senior individual contributor. • Familiarity with modern retrieval techniques including neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking. • Strong technical depth across machine learning and large-scale distributed/backend systems; able to set direction with and earn trust of staff-level engineers. • Track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy through launch while holding a high bar for quality and reliability. • Demonstrated product and business judgment: ability to connect modeling and ranking decisions to metrics like conversion and revenue.