# Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations 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: 2026-04-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://instacart.careers/job/?gh_jid=7778693
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instacart-staff-software-engineer-data-governance-and-foundations/

## About the role

Instacarts Data Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that power our company’s data ecosystem, including a modern open data lakehouse on Apache Iceberg, a multi-engine compute platform for stream and analytical workloads, and self-serve tooling that helps Product, Data Science, ML, Ads, Finance, and engineering teams move fast with data.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure or distributed systems at production scale
- Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time pipelines and serving systems
- Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations (build vs. buy, migration design, risk management) delivered to production
- Ability to build cost/benefit and TCO models for infrastructure investments and to drive alignment via clear architecture docs and strategy memos across multiple teams and leadership levels

Tags: Software Engineering