Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's engineering team as a technical lead for a small team, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping solutions. You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, shipping high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions. This role offers significant autonomy in setting technical direction and driving high-impact initiatives related to caching solutions. You'll leverage technologies like Go, Ruby, Python, and Rust, working with large-scale cloud services. The position requires extensive experience in software engineering and AWS Elasticache, along with a strong ability to architect and design systems. Instacart provides competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants and a flexible remote work policy.

Requirements

• 10+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
• 2+ Years working with AWS Elasticache with a strong knowledge of SQL
• 1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
• Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
• A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems
• The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly
• Enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence
• Able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews
• Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies (such as Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) in a production environment
• 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, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to a senior engineering manager
• Work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning 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 high-impact initiatives related to Caching solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
• You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
• You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants
• Base pay range (varies by location)