Senior Data Engineer

September 10

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Instacart

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eCommerce • Transport • Retail

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and robust data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes. • Collaborate with engineers and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution. • Work closely with product and data science partners to capture critical data needed for various operational and analytical use cases. • Drive organization-wide initiatives and suggest improvements to existing data processes. • Maintain a sense of urgency while shipping high-quality and pragmatic solutions. • Implement and maintain data quality monitoring and observability checks to ensure data accuracy and reliability. • Address and manage data ambiguity by developing robust data validation and reconciliation processes. • Utilize dbt (data build tool), Spark to transform raw data into meaningful datasets that meet business requirements. • Define and document data requirements in collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and clarity.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines. • Expert with SQL and knowledge of Python. • Experience building high quality ETL/ELT pipelines. • Past experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts. • Experience building data pipelines for accounting/billing purposes. • Experience with cloud-based data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, or similar. • Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets. • A strong sense of ownership, and an ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions. • Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience. (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. • Eligible for a new hire equity grant • Eligible for annual refresh grants • Read more about our benefits offerings at https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/