Instacart · 1 month ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads Infrastructure & Systems
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$299K/yr - $332K/yr
15+ years expInstacart is transforming the grocery industry, inviting the world to share love through food. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead innovations in Ads Infrastructure and Systems, focusing on building scalable systems and mentoring engineering talent.
Delivery ServiceE-CommerceGroceryShopping
Responsibilities
Leads, solves, and builds system innovations to solve some of the most challenging and interesting technical problems. Some examples:
Ads serving and indexing systems with rigorous scaling, availability, and latency constraints, that can scale horizontally to billions of product items
Infrastructure to rank heterogeneous content with cutting-edge ML models
Data systems and products that process and move billions of events every day, and that power not just Instacart but hundreds of other retailer partners, and
Workflow orchestration that advances the state of the art in scale, correctness, and developer velocity
Establishes Ads’ tech strategy and roadmap, balancing between both short-term needs and long-term sustainability
Demonstrates ability to architect and design complex systems, considering scalability, reliability, performance, and security
Serves as a technical leader and mentor, guiding and empowering junior engineers through code and design reviews, knowledge sharing, collaborative problem-solving, improving key engineering processes, and fostering a thriving engineering culture
Grows and mentors engineering talent; identifies and develops the next set of leaders
Builds and maintains synergies with other engineering teams across Instacart; acts as a bridge to represent Ads in company-wide engineering forums and activities
Contributes to company-level tech initiatives as one of the company’s most senior engineering leaders
Note this is a hands-on IC / TL role at the Director+ level. There are no people management expectations
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience building and leading systems engineering
Deep expertise in infrastructure and systems technologies
Proficiency in one or more relevant systems programming languages (e.g., Go, Rust or C++) and application programming languages (eg: Python or Ruby)
Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate at the most senior engineering levels
Proven track record of growing engineering culture and talent
Preferred
Experience and expertise with data engineering, ML infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and/or Ads technologies
Experience with scalable, customizable service architectures
Familiar with AWS, Golang, Spark, Clickhouse, Snowflake, TensorFlow
Benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
Company
Instacart
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.92BKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceTiger Global ManagementD1 Capital Partners
2023-09-19IPO
2021-11-01Private Equity· $232M
2021-09-05Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Chris Rogers
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Leonardo
Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-09
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