Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations
InstacartGrocery Delivery company
United States$221,000 - $279,500 USDLead
Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
T. Rowe Price
TCV
Kaplan Group Investments
Unanimous Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the architecture and delivery of Instacart's data lakehouse foundation and governance.
- •Instacart's Data Infrastructure organization is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of their open lakehouse foundation, governance, and compute strategy.
- •This role involves balancing current reliability with future scale and cost efficiency.
- •Key Responsibilities Translate Instacart’s data strategy into a multi-year architecture roadmap.
- •Own the open lakehouse foundation, including unified table formats and storage governance.
- •Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases.
- •Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering.
- •Elevate engineering excellence through architecture reviews and mentorship.
- •Requirements 10+ years of experience building and operating data infrastructure or distributed systems.
- •Hands-on expertise with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats.
- •Experience with distributed query/compute engines and event-driven/streaming infrastructure.
- •Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations.
- •Ability to build cost/benefit models and drive alignment across teams.
Required skills
PythonScalaSQLAWSApache KafkaSparkAirflowdbtDatabricksPostgreSQL
Nice-to-have skills
Compliance Management
Domain expertise
ecommercelogistics
Benefits & perks
Equity, Remote work
Tech stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaSparkSnowflakeDatabricksAirflowdbtScalaPythonPostgreSQLAWSSQL