Job Title: Senior Engineer

Company Name: Instacart

Job Url: https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?token=7564947&utm_source=jobright&jr_id=69b31dd8ad360c0340a832a3

Job Description: ABOUT THE JOB
If you’re excited by distributed systems at massive scale, real‑time data challenges, and opportunities to shape the future of AI‑powered commerce, this team offers a chance for outsized impact in a fast‑paced environment: 

You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.
You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to Storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.
Instacart's technology is constantly changing and adapting. Some of the technologies you would use at Instacart include:

Languages: Go, Python and Rust
Core Platforms: RDS, Postgres, Yugabyte, EC2 and selected GCP services
Observability and Analytics: Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry and Snowflake
If you have experience with these technologies, you will have the opportunity to dive deeper. If you haven't used these technologies you will have the chance to learn from the collective experience of our team.

ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications:

5+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized database (ideally PostgreSQL)
1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems.
The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly.
You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.
Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet the changing needs of the business.