Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

🕒 April 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $221k - $279.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

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.

📋 Description

• Translate Instacart’s data strategy into an actionable multi-year architecture roadmap. • Own the open lakehouse foundation defining and delivering unified table formats. • Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases. • Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools. • Elevate engineering excellence by leading architecture reviews and mentoring engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure or distributed systems at production scale. • Hands-on expertise with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi). • Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time pipelines and serving systems. • Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations delivered to production. • Ability to build cost/benefit and TCO models for infrastructure investments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Flexible work arrangements • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants