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Instacart

Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Instacart
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about 4 hours ago
Remote, United States
Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$221k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Translate Instacart’s data strategy into a multi-year architecture roadmap.
  • Own the open lakehouse foundation and deliver unified table formats and storage governance.
  • Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases.
  • Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering using LLM/AI tools.
  • Lead architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in data infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Hands-on expertise with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats.
  • Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure for real-time pipelines.
  • Proven ownership of major platform transitions delivered to production.
  • Ability to build cost/benefit models for infrastructure investments.

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