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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 with significant autonomy and responsibility.
  • Work with application engineering teams and internal stakeholders from problem definition 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.
  • Build and improve automated monitoring and control-plane systems for database clusters.
  • Develop supporting services such as database proxies, snapshotting, and backups.
  • Support multi-environment development and testing infrastructure and cloud-provider integrations.
  • Contribute to architectural shifts in distributed database systems, AI-based monitoring, and tiered storage.
  • Collaborate across teams to align on complex technical decisions and execution.
  • Review code, establish standards, and help scale team output through delegation and mentorship.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer 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.
  • Experience architecting and designing backend systems in a production environment.
  • Experience working with a large codebase on a cross-functional team and driving alignment across teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to take complex existing solutions and evolve them to meet changing business needs.
  • Strong ownership, self-motivation, and comfort in a growth-oriented startup environment.
  • Ability to dive deep into technical problems, identify root causes, and solve them correctly.
  • Ability to balance urgency with shipping high-quality, pragmatic solutions.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering.
  • Preferred: familiarity with distributed databases such as Yugabyte, CRDB, or TiDB.
  • Preferred: mentoring experience with other software engineers.
  • Preferred: experience with Go, Python, Rust, RDS, Postgres, EC2, selected GCP services, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry, and Snowflake.

Benefits

  • Remote role with a Flex First work policy.
  • Market-competitive compensation based on work location.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh grants.
  • Company benefits offerings available to employees.
  • Base salary range of $230,000-$242,500 for CA, NY, CT, and NJ.
  • Base salary range of $220,000-$232,000 for WA.
  • Base salary range of $211,000-$222,000 for several other listed states.
  • Base salary range of $192,000-$202,000 for all other states.

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