Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

• Translate Instacart’s data strategy into an actionable multi-year architecture roadmap, aligning with leadership while evolving the platform for scale, maturity, and cost efficiency.
• Own the open lakehouse foundation, defining and delivering unified table formats, storage governance, and a multi-engine compute portfolio.
• Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases like Ads, Fraud, and ML, setting deployment patterns, SLAs, and operational practices.
• Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools to the platform lifecycle, accelerating development, automation, observability, and cost optimization.
• Elevate engineering excellence by leading architecture reviews, mentoring senior/staff engineers, influencing hiring, and clearly communicating complex trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• 401k
• Dental
• Equity
• Health Insurance
• Mental Health
• Remote Work
• Vision

Culture

Requirements