Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Summary

Join Instacart's Data Platform team as a highly experienced engineer to build and improve the data infrastructure that powers our grocery delivery service. You will work with a small, collaborative team to design, develop, and maintain robust data processing systems handling petabytes of data daily. This role requires extensive experience with various data technologies (Scala, Python, SQL, Kafka, Spark, etc.) and a strong understanding of data warehousing and infrastructure. You will mentor team members, champion engineering excellence, and have significant ownership and autonomy. Instacart offers a flexible remote work environment and highly competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants.

Requirements

• Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
• A strong sense of ownership
• Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Scala, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment
• Strong knowledge of common industry datastores or warehouses (Postgres, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Dynamo, Snowflake)
• 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
• Strong knowledge of SQL
• 10+ years of working experience in a similar field/environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve and reliable solutions
• Mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence
• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants