Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
United States - Remote
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 weâre building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If youâre ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
Thereâs 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 workâwhether itâs from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shopâwhile staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
The Data Platform team provides a robust and cutting edge platform to process petabytes of data daily using industry best practices. We work closely with Product/Data Science/ML teams to understand their needs and provide high quality solutions. The team is still small and many of our bigger initiatives are at an early stage. We expect you to work closely with stakeholders and shape these systems from design, technical decisions, project management to execution. Your input will be critical for driving the Data Strategy and building the platform that Instacart data lake will be built upon. Instacart's technology is constantly changing and adapting. Some of the technologies you would use at Instacart include: Scala, Python, Postgres, Snowflake, DeltaLake, Iceberg, Clickhouse, Spark, DBT, Flink Kafka, âŚ
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Airflow Clickhouse Data Science Dbt Engineering Flink Iceberg Kafka Postgres Product Project Management Python Scala Snowflake Spark SQL Strategy
Experience10 years
EducationComputer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Engineering MA
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