Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance – Foundations

🕒 August 7

🏄 California, Colorado, +17 more states – Remote

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💵 $221k - $279.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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📋 Description

• Translate Instacart’s data strategy into an actionable multi-year architecture roadmap and align it with leadership. • Own the open lakehouse foundation, including unified table formats, storage governance, and multi-engine compute. • Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for Ads, Fraud, and ML use cases. • Apply LLM/AI tools to development, automation, observability, and cost optimization, and help embed AI capabilities into the platform. • Lead architecture reviews, mentor senior/staff engineers, influence hiring, and communicate technical trade-offs across technical and executive audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-scale data infrastructure or distributed systems • Hands-on expertise with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi • Experience with distributed query/compute engines such as Trino, Spark, or ClickHouse, including performance tuning and production reliability • Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure such as Kafka or Flink • Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations delivered to production • Ability to build cost/benefit and TCO models for infrastructure investments • Ability to drive alignment through architecture documents and strategy memos across teams and leadership levels • Preferred: platform governance controls and compliance frameworks such as SOX, CPRA, or GDPR • Preferred: FinOps experience, multi-million-dollar infrastructure budgets, and vendor contract negotiation • Preferred: deep SQL proficiency and strong Python or Scala skills • Preferred: orchestration and data transformation pipelines such as Apache Airflow and dbt • Preferred: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a relevant engineering or computer science field, or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant • Annual refresh equity grants • Flexible choice of work location, including home, office, or coffee shop • Regular in-person events • Market-competitive compensation and benefits

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