Senior Data Engineer, Core

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

At Instacart, our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Millions of customers every year use Instacart to buy their groceries online, and the Data Engineering team is building the critical data pipelines that underpin all of the myriad of ways that data is used across Instacart to support our customers and partners.

About the Role  

Instacart’s Core Data Engineering team plays a critical role in defining and maintaining company-wide datasets, standardized for uniform, reliable, timely and accurate insights from our data. This is a high impact, high visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart’s products. This role is an exciting opportunity to join a key team shaping our most critical data.

About the Team 

Core Data Engineering is part of the Infrastructure Engineering pillar, working closely with data engineers, data scientists and senior leaders across the company on developing and standardizing critical company-wide datasets. Our team also collaborates closely with other data infrastructure teams on designing and building key data platforms, systems and tools to make everyone at Instacart more productive with data.

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