Instacart

Staff Software Engineer, Ads Data Platform

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Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$221k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead and decompose complex data platform problems while maintaining alignment with the broader data vision.
  • Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor engineers, and foster a strong engineering culture.
  • Shape engineering architecture and produce and review technical artifacts aligned with business goals.
  • Oversee engineering initiatives end to end, including risk management, goal setting, execution, and delivery.
  • Build systems supporting data compliance, self-service, data integrity, metrics, billing, spam detection, and lift testing.
  • Balance maintainability, technical debt, and new feature development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • Expertise in Spark, ETL, distributed systems architecture, MapReduce, SQL, and big data infrastructure.
  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage ambiguity and conflicting requirements.
  • Strong ownership, self-motivation, and ability to balance urgency and pragmatism with high-quality long-term solutions.
  • Preferred: 10+ years of experience and a strong background in Scala and functional programming.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Python, Terraform, and Go.

Benefits

  • Flex First remote work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Market-competitive location-dependent base pay and benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkDatabricksdbtGoPythonScalaSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

Data Engineering
Instacart

About Instacart

10,000+ employees

Instacart builds a grocery technology platform used by retailers and consumers for online shopping, delivery, and pickup. Its business spans a consumer marketplace, enterprise e-commerce and fulfillment software, and a retail media ads network, generating revenue from fees, subscriptions, software, and advertising. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is publicly traded on Nasdaq and operates across the U.S. and Canada.

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