Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's Catalog data engineering team and play a critical role in defining how catalog data is structured and standardized for consistent, reliable, timely, and accurate product information. This high-impact role involves owning essential data integration pipelines and models across Instacart’s offerings, enabling efficient, high-quality data workflows. You will work closely with engineers and stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to solution delivery. You'll ship high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions, suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives, and have a large scope for company-level impact. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and highly competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines
• Expert with SQL and knowledge of Python
• Experience building high quality ETL/ELT pipelines
• Past experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts
• Experience building data pipelines for accounting/billing purposes
• Experience with cloud-based data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, or similar
• Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets
• A strong sense of ownership, and an ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-quality, scalable, and robust data pipelines for catalog data
• Work closely with engineers and both internal and external stakeholders
• Own a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
• Ship high-quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency
• Suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt (data build tool) and Airflow
• Experience with building Flink pipelines
• Experience with data quality monitoring/observability

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants