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Instacart

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Instacart
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about 3 hours ago
Remote, United States
Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$254k - $321k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Instacart's core data platform.
  • Lead platform strategy, including build vs. buy decisions and risk analysis for major investments.
  • Own the architecture and delivery of the open lakehouse, ensuring reliable scaling.
  • Drive the architecture for streaming data and real-time serving for critical use cases.
  • Lead the adoption of AI tools across the data platform lifecycle.
  • Serve as a senior technical voice, mentoring engineers and contributing to hiring.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into reliable, self-serve infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Expertise in modern data lakehouse architectures and distributed query/compute systems.
  • Proven track record of executing major infrastructure platform transitions.
  • Experience building business cases for infrastructure investments.
  • Exceptional technical communication skills for architecture documents and strategy memos.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements allowing employees to choose their work environment.
  • Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSClickHouseDatabricksdbtPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflake

Categories

AI & MLData EngineeringData Science