Senior Software Engineer II, Storage

3 weeks, 4 days ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
instacart.careers

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

  • Own technical direction for storage platforms as a senior engineer with substantial autonomy.
  • Work closely with application engineering teams and internal stakeholders from problem understanding through solution delivery.
  • Design and ship high-quality, scalable, and robust storage solutions with urgency.
  • Drive high-impact storage initiatives that improve resiliency, high availability, and company-wide storage efficiency.
  • Steward database infrastructure supporting core business lines across hundreds of clusters and petabytes of data.
  • Build and improve automated monitoring and control-plane systems for database clusters.
  • Develop supporting services such as database proxies, snapshotting, and backups.
  • Work with major cloud providers and support multiple environments for development and testing.
  • Advance infrastructure-level data privacy and compliance capabilities.
  • Contribute to forward-looking architecture, including distributed database systems, AI agent-based monitoring and operations, and tiered database storage.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale cloud services or application development environments.
  • 1+ year of hands-on experience delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized database, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • 1+ year of experience building cloud-based control-plane software.
  • Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end web technologies in production.
  • Experience working in a large codebase on a cross-functional team and driving alignment across teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to balance urgency with shipping high-quality, pragmatic solutions.
  • Demonstrated capacity to evolve complex existing systems to meet changing business needs.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering preferred.
  • Familiarity with distributed databases such as Yugabyte, CRDB, or TiDB preferred.
  • Experience mentoring other software engineers and helping them grow professionally preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote role with Flex First work policy and flexibility to work from home, an office, or another location.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Base salary range of $230,000-$242,000 USD for CA, NY, CT, and NJ; $220,000-$232,000 USD for WA; $211,000-$222,000 USD for several other listed states; and $192,000-$202,000 USD for all other states.

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