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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...

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Description

  • Own technical direction for the storage platform as a senior engineer with significant autonomy.
  • Work closely with application engineering teams and internal stakeholders from problem discovery through solution delivery.
  • Design, build, and ship scalable, robust systems for in-memory storage and related infrastructure.
  • Develop automated monitoring and control-plane systems for clusters running at large scale.
  • Build and maintain supporting services such as database proxies, snapshotting, and backups.
  • Collaborate with cloud providers and support multiple development and testing environments.
  • Drive initiatives that improve resiliency, high availability, storage efficiency, and application velocity across the company.
  • Participate in code reviews, establish best practices, and guide codebases toward higher quality.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help scale the team through strong design and communication practices.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience as a software engineer in large-scale cloud services or application development.
  • 1+ year of hands-on experience delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized in-memory datastore, ideally Valkey or Redis.
  • 1+ year of experience building cloud-based control-plane software.
  • Experience with Go, Python, or Rust is preferred.
  • Experience with Valkey, Redis, Memcd, EC2, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry, or Snowflake is preferred.
  • Strong ability to architect and design production backend systems.
  • Experience working in a large codebase on a cross-functional team and driving alignment across stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
  • Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure is preferred.
  • Experience mentoring other software engineers is preferred.

Benefits

  • Market-competitive compensation based on permanent work location.
  • Base salary range of $199,000-$210,000 USD for CA, NY, CT, and NJ.
  • Base salary range of $191,000-$201,000 USD for WA.
  • Base salary range of $183,000-$193,000 USD for OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, and HI.
  • Base salary range of $166,000-$175,000 USD for all other U.S. states.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Remote work with Instacart’s Flex First policy and flexible choice of work location.

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