Senior Data Engineer, Instacart

• 6+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines
• Expert with SQL and knowledge of Python
• Experience building high quality ETL/ELT pipelines
• Past experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts
• Experience building data pipelines for accounting/billing purposes
• Experience with cloud-based data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, or similar
• Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets
• A strong sense of ownership, and 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

Desirable

• Millions of customers every year use Instacart to buy their groceries online, and the Data Engineering team is building the critical data pipelines that underpin all of the myriad of ways that data is used across Instacart to support our customers and partners
• The Catalog data engineering team plays a critical role in defining how catalog data is structured and standardized for consistent, reliable, timely, and accurate product information
• This is a high impact, high visibility role owning essential data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart’s offerings
• You will enable efficient, high-quality data workflows that support Instacart’s platform and its ability to deliver exceptional shopping experiences
• The Catalog Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that the best possible representation of products is available to users, shoppers, and advertisers
• They achieve this by ingesting data from retailers, third parties, and brands, and processing it to create accurate and comprehensive product listings
• The team handles various aspects of catalog management, including data acquisition, product ingestion, inventory management, quality assurance, and enrichment of product attributes
• Our systems processes approximately 8 billion updates each day
• You will be part of a team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy
• Large scope for company-level impact working on catalog data
• You will work closely with engineers and both internal and external 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 organization-wide initiatives