Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing an essential service for millions of people, and they are building a team to push their shopping cart forward. The company's backend systems power clients used by millions of customers annually for online grocery shopping and require tight integration with major retailers. The core challenge is to deliver efficient, performant experiences to customers through large-scale caching, which plays an integral role in their systems.
Requirements
- 5+ 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 Redis/Valkey, or 1+ years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with PostgreSQL
- 1+ years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
- Familiarity with Distributed Databases (Yugabyte, CRDB, TiDB)
- Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies (such as Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) in a production environment
- Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Languages: Go, Ruby, Python and Rust
Responsibilities
- You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage & Caching platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction
- You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal 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 high-impact initiatives related to Caching & Storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.
- 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.
- You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
- You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.
Other
- Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
- A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems.
- The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly.
- An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
