Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations
Instacart · Software Engineering
- Location
- United States - Remote
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $265K–$280K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 7 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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…
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…
Overview
Instacarts Data Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that power our company’s data ecosystem, including a modern open data lakehouse on Apache Iceberg, a multi-engine compute platform for stream and analytical workloads, and self-serve…
About the Job
Translate Instacart’s data strategy (e.g., monetization, federated access, real-time) into an actionable multi-year architecture roadmap; align with leadership while evolving the platform for scale, maturity, and cost efficiency. Own the open lakehouse…
Minimum Qualifications
10+ 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) and…
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing platform-level governance controls and familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, CPRA, GDPR). FinOps experience optimizing data platform spend, including managing multi-million dollar infrastructure budgets and negotiating vendor…
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