Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Summary

Join Instacart's Data Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer and be a key player in shaping our data infrastructure. You will design, develop, and maintain access controls and governance frameworks to protect data integrity and privacy. Your work will improve data utilization across departments, driving informed decision-making and business value. This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems and collaborate in an open environment. The team uses cutting-edge technologies like Scala, Python, and Snowflake, providing opportunities for growth and learning. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Exhibit an in-depth understanding of distributed systems, with proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow, and common web frameworks such as Rails
• Proficiently use SQL for writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging
• Design for scale with the entire system in mind
• Communicate capably and be comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
• Possess strong analytical and debugging skills
• Take a strong sense of ownership while working with large codebases and diverse suite of products
• Embrace a collaborative mindset to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
• Communicate clearly, present ideas well, and influence key stakeholders at manager, director, and VP levels

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and sustain comprehensive access controls and governance systems that improve the integrity and privacy of our data
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of the data platform
• Collaborate with various stakeholders and actively participate in the data infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or demonstrate equivalent industry experience (4+ years)
• Have prior work experience in Data Platforms
• Hold experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive, or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines
• Have proven experience with distributed system designs
• Possess strong general programming and algorithm skills
• Show strong attention to detail and accuracy in your implementation
• Have strong experience writing complex and optimized SQL queries
• Appreciate a data-driven mindset

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• Sales Incentive Plan
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants