Senior Software Engineer II, Storage

1 day, 21 hours 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 with significant autonomy and accountability.
  • 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 innovation, resiliency, high availability, and company-wide storage efficiency.
  • Innovate automated monitoring and control-plane systems for database clusters.
  • Build and support related services such as database proxies, snapshotting, backups, and operational tooling.
  • Partner with major cloud providers and support multiple development and testing environments.
  • Contribute to infrastructure-level data privacy and compliance efforts.
  • Support forward-looking architecture changes such as distributed database systems, AI-assisted monitoring and operations, and tiered storage.
  • Collaborate through code reviews, design discussions, delegation, and mentoring to raise engineering standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale cloud services or application development.
  • 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 production backend systems with common web technologies.
  • 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.
  • Strong ownership and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify and resolve root causes.
  • Ability to scale through junior engineers via effective design, communication, delegation, standards, and code reviews.
  • 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 (preferred).
  • Interest in solving high-impact, organization-wide problems and turning abstract challenges into concrete programs (preferred).
  • Experience with Go, Python, or Rust (preferred).
  • Experience with RDS, Postgres, Yugabyte, EC2, or selected GCP services (preferred).
  • Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, or Snowflake (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote-first Flex First work policy with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation.
  • Base salary range of $230,000–$242,500 USD in CA, NY, CT, and NJ.
  • Base salary range of $220,000–$232,000 USD in WA.
  • Base salary range of $211,000–$222,000 USD in OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, and HI.
  • Base salary range of $192,000–$202,000 USD in all other states.
  • New hire equity grant.
  • Annual refresh equity grants.
  • Access to Instacart benefits offerings.

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