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instacart.careers

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America that works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. They partner with over 1,000 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery, an...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K

Description

  • Define and drive multi-year architecture roadmaps for large-scale data ingestion and processing infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end platform initiatives, including build-versus-buy decisions, migration design, production rollout, and risk management.
  • Partner with vendors such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Confluent on technical integration, contract evaluation, and TCO modeling.
  • Embed governance and compliance controls for SOX, CPRA, and GDPR into platform architecture and data lifecycle management.
  • Optimize infrastructure spend across compute, storage, and pipeline efficiency while managing multi-million dollar budgets.
  • Write architecture documents, strategy memos, and proposals that align engineering leadership and senior stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers and help grow a high-performing data infrastructure organization.
  • Collaborate with Data Science, ML Platform, Ads Infrastructure, Finance Engineering, and Product teams to support evolving platform needs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems at scale in a high-growth, data-intensive environment.
  • Experience with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed query and compute systems such as Trino, Spark, or ClickHouse, including performance tuning and production reliability work.
  • Strong experience with Kafka-based ingestion and Flink or equivalent stream processing systems.
  • Proven experience leading major platform transitions, including migration design, phased rollout, and risk management.
  • Experience building business cases for infrastructure investments, including cost-benefit analysis and TCO modeling.
  • Exceptional written technical communication skills for architecture docs, strategy memos, and cross-team proposals.
  • Strong ownership and comfort operating in ambiguity across large, multi-team initiatives.
  • Preferred experience with data governance and compliance frameworks such as SOX, CPRA, and GDPR.
  • Preferred experience with FinOps, large infrastructure budgets, and enterprise vendor contract negotiation.
  • Deep SQL expertise and strong proficiency in Python or Scala.
  • Experience with Apache Airflow and dbt in large-scale production environments.
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • Remote role with flexibility to work from home, an office, or a coffee shop under Instacart's Flex First approach.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation based on permanent work location.
  • Base salary range in the US from $166,000 to $210,000 depending on location.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Benefits offerings available through Instacart's employee benefits program.

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