Staff Engineer

Shipt

. Serve as a technical leader across Shipt’s engineering organization .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeMinneapolis • Minnesota • United StatesLead💰 $95,800 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting resilient systems and implementing modern observability practices within multi-cloud environments. Proficient in managing complex microservices on Kubernetes and driving engineering practices that enhance service reliability and incident response.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Kubernetes Infrastructure ManagementMicroservices ArchitectureTerraform and Helm ProficiencyModern Observability StacksSLO-Driven Engineering Practices

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Hard Skills

Engineering ExperienceSystem Tooling LanguagesIncident Response WorkflowsRoot-Cause AnalysisAutomated Recovery Techniques

Tools & Technologies

AWSGCPDatadogPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryArgoCDFlux

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Industry Keywords

MicroservicesCloud EnvironmentsService MeshesAPI GatewaysCDN Routing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGRPCKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a technical leader across Shipt’s engineering organization
Architect system resilience and pioneer modern observability
Eliminate systemic friction across distributed microservices
Work with Checkout, Logistics, Catalog, Search, and Shopper Experience product teams
Establish SLO-driven engineering practices
Improve incident response workflows
Drive multi-cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure strategy
Build automated tooling and self-service infrastructure
Enable product engineers to deploy safely, monitor effectively, and manage service reliability
Act as a technical escalation point during critical incidents
Drive blameless post-mortem practices focused on root-cause elimination, long-term remediation, and automated recovery

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of engineering experience
5+ years running complex microservices at scale on Kubernetes within cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP)
Fluent in at least one modern language used for system tooling and backend services
Advanced experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)
Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and central logging platforms
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/2, gRPC, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), CDN routing (e.g., Cloudflare, Fastly), and API gateways
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience (Required)
Ability to work in a remote role associated with Minneapolis, Minnesota
Successful completion of technical interviews using an online coding platform

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, vision and more for employees and eligible family members
Company 401(k) plan
Discretionary vacation for exempt team members
Paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Paid sick leave
Eligibility for an annual bonus
Potential for restricted stock units based on role
Reasonable accommodation support
Continued flexibility for hybrid team members