Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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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-reputed company compute platform for reputed company and analytical workloads, and self-serve tooling that helps Product, Data Science, ML, Ads, Finance, and engineering teams move fast with data.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure to join our Data Governance and Foundations Team. In this role, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader owning the architecture and delivery of our open lakehouse foundation, governance and access patterns, and multi-reputed company compute strategy—balancing today’s reliability with the next three to five years of scale, maturity, and cost efficiency.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leadership and stakeholders across Data Science, ML Platform, Ads Infrastructure, Finance Engineering, Product Engineering, and reputed company. You’ll operate with a high degree of ownership in a fast-paced environment where architectural decisions have real technical and financial consequences. If you reputed company on reputed company, high-scale challenges and roll-up-your-sleeves execution, this is a chance to shape the backbone of reputed company’s data platform.

Our stack includes technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Flink, Trino, reputed company, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Airflow, dbt, reputed company Lake, reputed company, Python, reputed company, and AWS. You’ll join a focused team of 7 engineers that values pragmatism, clarity, and impact.

About the Job

• Translate reputed company’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 foundation: define and deliver reputed company table formats, storage governance, and a multi-reputed company compute portfolio (interactive, batch, streaming) that enables portability and prevents lock-in.
• Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases (Ads, Fraud, ML): set deployment patterns, SLAs, and operational practices that balance performance, availability, and spend.
• Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools to the platform lifecycle—accelerating development, automation, observability, and cost optimization—and partnering to embed AI-powered capabilities into the platform.
• reputed company engineering excellence: reputed company architecture reviews, mentor senior/staff engineers, influence hiring, and clearly communicate reputed company trade-offs to both technical and executive audiences to ensure cross-org alignment.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ 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, reputed company Lake, Hudi) and with distributed query/compute engines (e.g., Trino, Spark, reputed company), including performance tuning and production reliability.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time pipelines and serving systems.
• Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations (build vs. buy, migration design, risk management) delivered to production.
• Ability to build cost/benefit and TCO models for infrastructure investments and to drive alignment reputed company clear architecture docs and strategy memos across multiple teams and leadership levels.

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 reputed company.
• Deep SQL proficiency and strong skills in Python or reputed company for systems-level development.
• Experience with orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) and data transformation pipelines (e.g., dbt) in large-scale production environments.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here. For US based candidates, the reputed company pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.