[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Ads Data Platform @Instacart

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing a robust data platform that addresses strategic challenges within Ads and across Instacart. You will design and build systems that capture and enforce data compliance requirements while enhancing self-service capabilities for internal consumers, all while maintaining strong guarantees around data integrity and consistency.

• Lead and break down complex problems while keeping the broader data vision in focus.
• Collaborate with engineers and engineering teams, providing mentorship and fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Directly contribute to our data vision and engineering architecture. Produce and review technical artifacts that align with business goals.
• Oversee engineering initiatives end-to-end, proactively managing risks, setting goals, and ensuring smooth execution and delivery.
• Balance maintainability with tech debt and the development of new features.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage ambiguity and conflicting requirements.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Expertise in Spark, ETLs, Distributed System architecture, MapReduce, SQL, and Big Data infrastructure.
• Experience in balancing urgency and pragmatism with high-quality, long-term solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience (preferred).
• Strong background in Scala and functional programming (preferred).
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, Python, Terraform, and Go (preferred).

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First policy.
• New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.

Company Description

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.