3 months ago
Base Salary
$196k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for reusable and scalable systems across off-platform advertising workflows, cleanrooms, taxonomy automation, and the Ads Data Solutions Platform.
- Co-own the technical roadmap, modernize data solutions infrastructure, and drive cross-team initiatives and dependency management.
- Expand third-party advertising integrations, privacy-forward activation and identity workflows, and measurement ingestion pipelines for reach, frequency, and conversion signals.
- Extend cleanroom orchestration and governance tooling, including multi-cleanroom support, policy enforcement, reusable query templates, partner configurations, and cost and performance optimization.
- Lead taxonomy intake automation and release workflow improvements across UI and backend systems.
- Improve platform foundations, developer tooling, testing, CI/CD, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into phased POCs, pilots, and production systems with clear SLAs and SLOs.
- Champion security-by-design, data governance, and privacy compliance across data pipelines.
- Use AI-assisted tools for design, coding, testing, and documentation; define reusable team prompts and identify AI opportunities in internal tools and operations.
- Mentor engineers up to L5, establish code quality and review standards, and help define the future on-call and operational excellence model.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering and operating large-scale backend and data systems.
- Proven experience leading cross-team projects and architectural decisions.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in either Ruby or Go.
- Experience building services and APIs, including REST and gRPC, and integrating third-party APIs.
- Experience with DBT, Airflow, Spark, Databricks, advanced SQL, Snowflake, AWS, and workflow orchestration such as Temporal.
- Experience with advertising technology, programmatic and measurement integrations, cleanrooms, identity and matching systems, and data deconfliction.
- Working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA privacy and compliance practices in data workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD, containers, testing, observability, incident readiness, and SLOs.
- Recent hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or OpenAI-based assistants.
- Experience defining reusable AI prompts and workflows, contributing to AI-enabled internal tools or automation, and evaluating AI risks, guardrails, and privacy implications.
- Strong technical writing, stakeholder management, consensus-building, and execution skills.
- Preferred: experience with UID2/TTD, Roku, PubMatic, NBCUniversal, Meta Advanced Analytics, or Google ADH pipelines.
- Preferred: experience with catalog or taxonomy systems, entity lineage, custom hierarchies, Snowflake governance, partner data collaboration, vendor management, external API certification programs, or AI-powered internal tools.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement, with employees able to work from home, an office, or another preferred location.
- Regular in-person community events and occasional trips to the Toronto office.
- Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Hiring is currently limited to candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Instacart
Instacart is a leading grocery technology company that partners with more than 2,200 retail banners – representing nearly 100,000 stores – to transform how people shop for the groceries they need from the retailers they trust, while creating flexible earning opportunities for shoppers. Through the Instacart Marketplace, Instacart Enterprise platform, and Instacart Ads ecosystem, the company powers ecommerce, fulfillment, in-store technology, AI offerings, and advertising for partners. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.