Order same-day delivery or pickup from more than 300 retailers and grocers. Download the Instacart app or start shopping online now with Instacart to get groceries, alcohol, home essentials, and more delivered to you in as fast as 1 hour or select curbside... Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
The Ads DSE team builds the core capabilities that power Instacart's off-platform advertising, secure data collaboration (cleanrooms), automated taxonomy management, and their associated platform foundations. We are hiring a Senior Engineer II (L6) to co-own the technical roadmap, modernize our data solutions infrastructure, scale off-platform integrations and measurement capabilities, extend our cleanroom collaboration capabilities, and automate taxonomy change management workflows. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Proven senior‑level impact
- 8+ years of software engineering experience (typically 10+ for this level) delivering and operating large‑scale backend/data systems, led cross‑team projects and architectural decisions
- Backend and data engineering
- Strong in Python and one of Ruby or Go, services/APIs (REST/gRPC), integrations with third‑party APIs (e.g., Meta, Google, The Trade Desk)
- Data pipelines with DBT and Airflow, Spark/Databricks, advanced SQL and performance tuning
- Snowflake and AWS experience, cost‑aware design, workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal) and event‑driven patterns
More about this role
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
The Ads DSE team builds the core capabilities that power Instacart's off-platform advertising, secure data collaboration (cleanrooms), automated...
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