Instacart is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team and help us transform the grocery industry by building core privacy components that product teams across Instacart use to ensure our Customers can be in control of their data. As a Senior Software Engineer in our Privacy Engineering team, you will design, develop, and sustain comprehensive access controls and governance systems that improve the integrity and privacy of our data.

Requirements

• Has 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Build and collaborate 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
• Develop scalable and pragmatic controls related to data collection, classification, storage, access, usage, and deletion in data warehouse environments and/or operational data systems
• Capably communicates 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

• Holds 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 Security Engineering 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

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants