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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Location
California + 17 moreAll locations: California | Colorado | Connecticut | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
66 days ago
Salary
$254K - $321K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Instacart
• Own the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Instacart’s core data platform (storage, compute, streaming, orchestration, analytical serving). • Architect the ownership strategy for the data platform, determining build vs. buy including managed services vs. open-source self-hosting. • Drive the architecture and delivery of the open lakehouse, including unified table format, compute engine portfolio, and storage governance. • Own the architecture for streaming data, event-driven pipelines, and real-time serving for critical use cases (Ads, Fraud, ML). • Lead the adoption, application, and cultural integration of AI/LLM tools across the data platform lifecycle. • Serve as the senior technical voice, setting standards for system design and reliability. • Collaborate with Data Science, ML Platform, Ads Infra, Product Eng, Finance Eng, and Security to translate needs into reliable, self-serve infrastructure.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering, focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
- Sets technical direction for large-scale data platforms, defining multi-year architecture roadmaps and influencing strategy.
- Experience in high-growth, data-intensive environments with significant infrastructure scale and spend.
- Expertise in modern data lakehouse architectures, open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi), and compute/storage trade-offs.
- Proficiency in distributed query/compute systems (Trino, Spark, ClickHouse, etc.) for performance tuning and production reliability.
- Proven track record owning and executing major infrastructure platform transitions, including build vs. buy, migration design, and risk management.
- Experience building compelling business cases for infrastructure investments, including cost-benefit analysis and TCO modeling.
- Exceptional technical communication for clear architecture documents, strategy memos, and proposals to drive leadership alignment.
- Strong ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and organizational influence to drive large, multi-team initiatives from concept to production.
Benefits
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
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