[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Platform Tooling @Instacart

Role Description

The Marketing Platform Tooling team builds and maintains the core backend systems that power all of Instacart's marketing capabilities. You will build shared, composable foundations designed to serve as the backbone for the entire marketing platform space. This is greenfield infrastructure work with direct visibility into Instacart's most critical company priorities.

• Data ingestion and processing pipelines, both real-time streaming and batch, that keep targeting data fresh and accurate.
• Segment evaluation and matching services that resolve audiences on demand for many downstream consumers.
• A high-volume, reliable messaging and delivery pipeline that ensures accurate, timely, personalized sends at scale.
• The shared, composable backbone and APIs these capabilities are built on, with a strong focus on observability, testing, and uptime.
• Architect, build, and maintain excellent backend applications with clean code.
• Help shape the technical direction and roadmap of our targeting and CRM platforms.
• Design and operate real-time and batch data pipelines and distributed services built for reliability and scale.
• Contribute to the shared, composable backbone that these systems are built on.
• Own important pieces of the platform that have high visibility internally.
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across teams and functions to drive consensus and align goals.
• Be empowered and responsible for planning, decision-making, shipping, and maintaining your surface areas.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience with a proven track record of success.
• Expertise in backend languages, specifically Ruby and Go (experience with Python is a plus).
• Solid understanding of Rails or Pandas.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable distributed systems, with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and data pipelines (batch and streaming).
• Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating with and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First remote work policy.
• 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.