[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer II, Storage @Instacart

Instacart; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 159.000 - 214.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading grocery technology firm is seeking a Senior Engineer to manage Storage & Caching platforms. This remote role requires at least 5 years of experience in cloud services and expertise in languages like Go and Python. The candidate will drive high-impact projects, collaborate with teams, and ensure solutions are scalable and robust. Competitive compensation based on location.

Leistungen

Competitive compensation

New hire equity grants

Annual refresh grants

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years as a software engineer in cloud services.
• 1+ years with Redis/Valkey or PostgreSQL.
• Experience building cloud-based control-plane software.

Aufgaben

• Own and build foundational engineering components for caching and storage.
• Work closely with application engineering teams.
• Ship high-quality solutions with urgency.

Kenntnisse

Cloud services

Distributed Databases

Go programming

Python programming

Ruby programming

PostgreSQL

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Redis

RDS Postgres

Elasticache

Elasticsearch

Datadog

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Instacart is powered by a robust set of cloud services. Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. Large-scale caching plays an integral role in delivering efficient, performant experiences to customers. You will have the opportunity to own and build a whole new set of foundational engineering components in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.

About the Job

• You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage & Caching platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to a senior 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 Caching & 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, Ruby, Python and Rust
  • Platforms: RDS Postgres, DynamoDB, Elasticache (Redis/Valkey/Memcd), Elasticsearch, 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 Redis/Valkey, or 1+ years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with PostgreSQL
• 1+ years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
• Familiarity with Distributed Databases (Yugabyte, CRDB, TiDB)
• 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 (such as Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
• You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
• You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully

#LI-Remote

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

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 base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

• CA, NY, CT, NJ: $225,000 — $250,000 USD
• WA: $216,000 — $240,000 USD
• OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $207,000 — $230,000 USD
• All other states: $187,000 — $208,000 USD