Instacart

Grocery

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Storage

$166–210k Los Angeles, California, United States; United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Storage at Instacart. Skills: Storage platforms, In-memory storage, Distributed systems. Own and build foundational engineering components. Innovate automated monitoring & control-plane systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver efficient, performant experiences; Serve millions of requests daily; Ensure 24/7 monitoring and uptime; Prepare for future growth; Impact Instacart through stability, productivity and cost management; Outsized impact; Shipping code; Iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices; Accelerate the team; Establish standards & best practices; Evolve complex solutions

Industry & Context.

Grocery
Problems you'll solve

Dive deep into technical challenges; Champion root causes; Solving problems correctly; Tackling abstract challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment, 1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized in-memory datastore (ideally Valkey or Redis), 1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software

Nice to Have

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure, You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals, You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully

What You'll Do.

Own and build foundational engineering components

Innovate automated monitoring & control-plane systems

Support related services

Work with cloud providers

Support multiple environments

Shape the future of AI-powered commerce

Set technical direction

Ship high quality solutions

Drive high-impact initiatives

Unlock new innovations

Accelerate application development

Right-size storage needs

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with other application engineering teams; Work with internal stakeholders; Collaborative environment; Cross functional team

Communication Scope

Written communication; Delegation

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 Instacart is powered by a robust set of cloud services. Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. Large-scale caching and storage plays an integral role in delivering efficient, performant experiences to customers. You will have the opportunity to own and build a whole new set of foundational engineering components in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily. Instacart’s storage needs are ever-evolving and growing. The Key-Value team are stewards of the in-memory datastore infrastructure that supports Instacart’s

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