We’re transforming the grocery industry

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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

About the Role - As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building a robust data platform that addresses strategic challenges within Ads and across Instacart. You’ll work on developing systems to capture and enforce data-compliance requirements, and enhance self-service capabilities for internal consumers while maintaining data integrity and consistency. Your efforts will drive the north-star vision for the platform by consolidating diverse requirements and collaborating across multiple engineering teams, ensuring strategic alignment and continuous delivery.

About the Team - You will join a dynamic team that transforms raw data into actionable insights, fulfilling the needs of advertisers, internal data consumers like data science and machine learning engineers, sales, and more. The team owns several systems such as metrics transformation and storage, billing, spam detection, lift testing, and supports multiple facets of Instacart’s data infrastructure to equip the organization with valuable information. We empower Instacart teams to make data-driven decisions and directly impact business goals.

About the Job

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.

About You

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Instacart provides 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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CAN

$224,000—$249,000 CAD

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