[Hiring] Software Engineer II @Instacart

Role Description

As a Software Engineer II on Carrot Ads, you will independently build and ship features across the publisher-facing stack:

• Build and ship publisher-facing features end to end across Storefront, Storefront Pro, and API partners.
• Extend the Connect / Carrot Ads API with clear contracts, robust event handling, and self-serve documentation.
• Build the retailer control surface including relevance and quality-score inputs, reserve pricing, and ad-load controls.
• Strengthen reporting and data integrity across partner systems.
• Raise reliability by helping define and meet partner SLAs.
• Debug partner-facing serving and reporting issues.
• Collaborate across Product, Enterprise Solutions, and horizontal Ads teams.
• Use AI-assisted developer tools to move faster without lowering quality or security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production backend services.
• Strong API design and distributed-systems fundamentals, with fluency in a backend language such as Go, Ruby, or Python.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping features end to end with solid testing, observability, and operational ownership.
• Experience debugging across service boundaries and collaborating across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Experience in ad tech, retail media, or other publisher- or partner-facing platforms.
• Familiarity with event streaming and reliability patterns at scale (e.g., Kafka, dead-letter queues).
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS or GCP, including data or measurement-adjacent systems.
• Experience with data reconciliation, attribution, or catalog and entity mapping.
• Experience building partner- or customer-facing APIs, including documentation and integration test coverage.

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First remote work policy.
• Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.