# Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering at Instacart

- Company: Instacart
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.instacart.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://instacart.careers/job/?gh_jid=8281965&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instacart-senior-software-engineer-ii-ads-data-solutions-engineering-2/

## 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

Tags: Infrastructure

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instacart-senior-software-engineer-ii-ads-data-solutions-engineering-2/