About this role
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
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 f