Instacart
Grocery
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Instacart. Skills: AI-for-Data, LLM-powered systems, Data Infrastructure. Design LLM-powered systems. Build LLM-powered systems”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of working experience, backend engineering skills in Python, experience building production services, Hands-on experience with applied LLM systems, worked on an LLM-powered system in production, Working knowledge of common data infrastructure technologies, knowledge of SQL, experience working with a large codebase, An ability to balance a sense of urgency
Nice to Have
Experience with retrieval systems, vector stores, grounding LLMs over structured/unstructured enterprise data, Familiarity with eval frameworks, quality systems for LLM-powered products, Experience building developer tools, internal tools for technical users
What You'll Do.
Design LLM-powered systems
Build LLM-powered systems
Transform data interaction
Develop natural-language data access
Create AI-assisted SQL
Automate metadata generation
Embed intelligent capabilities
Partner across Data Infra
Embed AI capabilities
Build retrieval/grounding systems
Build agentic workflows
Build evals and quality systems
Build product surfaces
Suggest new initiatives
Drive new initiatives
Collaborate with other engineers
Contribute to engineering culture
Work with Data Science
Work with Product Engineering
Work with Data Infra teams
Identify AI applications
Translate applications into systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional team; Data Science teams; ML teams; Product Engineering teams; Data Infra teams
Full Job Description
We're transforming the grocery industry 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. Instacart is a Flex First team 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. Overview About the Role We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Agentic Analytics Platform team — the team responsible for the AI-for-Data charter inside Instacart's Data Infrastructure org. You'll design and build LLM-powered systems that transform how data practitioners (data scientists, data engineers, analysts, PMs) interact with data at Instacart — from natural-language data access and AI-assisted SQL, to automated metadata generation, to embedding intelligent capabilities across our broader data infra ecosystem. This is a hands-on role at the frontier of applied AI inside a large, modern data stack. About the Team The mission of the Instacart Self-Serve organization is to improve the productivity of data practitioners through easy-to-use, self-serve tools. Agentic Analytics is the team chartered with bringing AI and LLMs into that miss
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