[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer II, Storage @Instacart

Role Description

We're transforming the grocery industry at Instacart, where we invite the world to share love through food. We believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online.

• You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.
• You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to Storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.

Some of the technologies you would use at Instacart include:

• Languages: Go, Python and Rust
• Core Platforms: RDS, Postgres, Yugabyte, EC2 and selected GCP services
• Observability and Analytics: Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry and Snowflake

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized database (ideally PostgreSQL)
• 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.
• You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
• You are 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 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
• Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet the changing needs of the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
• Familiarity with Distributed Databases (Yugabyte, CRDB, TiDB)
• 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 in each location where our employees work.
• This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location.
• Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below:

• CA, NY, CT, NJ: $230,000 — $242,000 USD
• WA: $220,000 — $232,000 USD
• OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $211,000 — $222,000 USD
• All other states: $192,000 — $202,000 USD