Remote Senior Software Engineer, Privacy

Summary

Join Instacart's Privacy Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer to build core privacy components and ensure customers' data control. You will design, develop, and sustain access controls and governance systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and work on challenging scaling problems.

Requirements

• Has 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Builds and collaborates with our backend privacy engineers on the internal systems that enable privacy by design, touching all aspects of our full tech stack to turn privacy controls into reusable components
• Develops scalable and pragmatic controls related to data collection, classification, storage, access, usage, and deletion in data warehouse environments and/or operational data systems
• Communicates capably and is comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
• Possesses strong analytical and debugging skills
• Takes a strong sense of ownership while working with large codebases and diverse suite of products
• Embraces a collaborative mindset to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
• Communicates clearly, presents ideas well, and can influence key stakeholders at manager, director, and VP levels

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and sustaining the comprehensive access controls and governance systems that improve the integrity and privacy of our data
• Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the data platform
• Collaborating with various stakeholders and actively involving data infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or can demonstrate equivalent industry experience (4+ years)
• Have prior work experience in Software, Security or Privacy Engineering
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Strong knowledge of common back-end web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, SQL, etc.) and big data technologies (such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Flink) in a large scale distributed system environment
• Have proven experience with distributed system designs
• Possess strong general programming and algorithm skills
• Show strong attention to detail and accuracy in your implementation
• Appreciate a data-driven mindset
• An ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, including written, to serve as an advocate & evangelist for the Privacy team

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation
• Remote work policy
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants