Remote Staff Platform Engineer Jobs
Remote staff platform engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like cloud infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise SaaS, where distributed teams depend on staff-level engineers to own platform reliability and developer tooling at scale. Companies hiring remotely right now include GitHub, Huntress Labs, and Block. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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.
Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing a robust data platform that addresses strategic challenges within Ads and across Instacart. You will design and build systems that capture and enforce data compliance requirements while enhancing self-service capabilities for internal consumers, all while maintaining strong guarantees around data integrity and consistency. By consolidating diverse requirements and collaborating across multiple engineering teams, you will help drive the platform’s north-star vision, ensuring strategic alignment and continuous delivery.
You will be part of a dynamic team focused on transforming raw data into actionable insights for a wide range of stakeholders, including advertisers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and sales teams. The team owns and operates critical systems such as metrics transformation and storage, billing, spam detection, and lift testing, supporting multiple facets of Instacart’s data infrastructure. Through this work, you will empower teams across the organization to make data-driven decisions and directly contribute to achieving key business outcomes.
About the Job
- Lead and break down complex problems while keeping the broader data vision in focus.
- Collaborate with engineers and engineering teams, providing mentorship and fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Directly contribute to our data vision and engineering architecture. Produce and review technical artifacts that align with business goals.
- Oversee engineering initiatives end-to-end, proactively managing risks, setting goals, and ensuring smooth execution and delivery.
- Balance maintainability with tech debt and the development of new features.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage ambiguity and conflicting requirements.
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Expertise in Spark, ETLs, Distributed System architecture, MapReduce, SQL, and Big Data infrastructure.
- Experience in balancing urgency and pragmatism with high-quality, long-term solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience
- Strong background in Scala and functional programming.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, Python, Terraform, and Go.
#LI-Remote
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.
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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$265,000 - $279,500 USD
WA
$254,000 - $268,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$243,000 - $256,500 USD
All other states
$221,000 - $233,000 USD
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.
Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing a robust data platform that addresses strategic challenges within Ads and across Instacart. You will design and build systems that capture and enforce data compliance requirements while enhancing self-service capabilities for internal consumers, all while maintaining strong guarantees around data integrity and consistency. By consolidating diverse requirements and collaborating across multiple engineering teams, you will help drive the platform’s north-star vision, ensuring strategic alignment and continuous delivery.
You will be part of a dynamic team focused on transforming raw data into actionable insights for a wide range of stakeholders, including advertisers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and sales teams. The team owns and operates critical systems such as metrics transformation and storage, billing, spam detection, and lift testing, supporting multiple facets of Instacart’s data infrastructure. Through this work, you will empower teams across the organization to make data-driven decisions and directly contribute to achieving key business outcomes.
About the Job
- Lead and break down complex problems while keeping the broader data vision in focus.
- Collaborate with engineers and engineering teams, providing mentorship and fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Directly contribute to our data vision and engineering architecture. Produce and review technical artifacts that align with business goals.
- Oversee engineering initiatives end-to-end, proactively managing risks, setting goals, and ensuring smooth execution and delivery.
- Balance maintainability with tech debt and the development of new features.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage ambiguity and conflicting requirements.
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Expertise in Spark, ETLs, Distributed System architecture, MapReduce, SQL, and Big Data infrastructure.
- Experience in balancing urgency and pragmatism with high-quality, long-term solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience
- Strong background in Scala and functional programming.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, Python, Terraform, and Go.
#LI-Remote
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.
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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$265,000 - $279,500 USD
WA
$254,000 - $268,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$243,000 - $256,500 USD
All other states
$221,000 - $233,000 USD
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Manufacturing
- Media & Entertainment
- Marketing & Advertising
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote staff platform engineer jobs.
- Five or more years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering roles
- Deep proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments
- Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform or Pulumi
- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design, automation, and developer experience tooling
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional technical initiatives and define platform standards
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure at an architectural level
Tips for Your Remote Staff Platform Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote staff platform engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly. Remote postings at well-known companies fill fast, so getting your application in early matters.
Show your async communication in writing
Remote platform teams run design reviews, incident write-ups, and architecture decisions through written docs. Include links to RFCs, postmortems, or runbooks you authored. Concrete writing samples tell remote hiring managers more than a bullet point claiming strong communication skills ever could.
Document your platform work publicly
Remote employers can't see you work, so your GitHub history, open-source contributions, or a personal infrastructure project become your portfolio. Terraform modules, Helm charts, or a documented CI/CD pipeline you built and maintain give hiring teams concrete evidence of staff-level ownership.
Target remote-first companies over remote-optional ones
Remote-first organizations build their entire engineering process around distributed work, which means clearer async norms, documented oncall expectations, and better tooling from day one. Remote-optional companies often struggle to integrate remote staff engineers into on-site planning cycles, making day-to-day work harder.
Remote Staff Platform Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote staff platform engineer job?
Remote staff platform engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate ownership and self-direction without in-person oversight. Remote-first SaaS companies and distributed infrastructure teams are the most consistent hirers. Employers screen heavily for async written communication, since design reviews and incident retrospectives happen in writing. Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD depth, paired with a public record of shipped platform work, gives candidates the clearest edge.
Which companies hire remote staff platform engineers?
Companies hiring remote staff platform engineers right now include GitHub, Huntress Labs, and Block, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, cloud-native fintech firms, and distributed enterprise infrastructure teams make up the largest share of ongoing remote openings for this role.
Can you get a remote staff platform engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level staff platform engineer roles are harder to land because you must troubleshoot and ship independently from day one. Early-career candidates have the best shot at remote-first startups willing to invest in growth. Showing a home lab, an open-source contribution to a platform or infrastructure project, or a documented personal Kubernetes cluster can substitute for professional experience when applying remotely.
Do you need a degree for remote staff platform engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring staff platform engineers weigh practical skills and demonstrated output over formal credentials. A strong GitHub profile, verifiable contributions to infrastructure projects, and experience with the core platform stack carry more weight in a remote hiring process than a degree alone. Many remote-first companies have explicitly dropped degree requirements in favor of skills-based screening.
Which industries hire the most remote staff platform engineers?
Most remote staff platform engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, Manufacturing, and Media & Entertainment, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams where platform reliability and developer productivity are business-critical, making remote staff platform engineers a steady hire regardless of location.
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