Instacart is seeking to solve complex scaling problems and design features that will define the grocery industry by improving large-scale caching for efficient and performant customer experiences.
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
- Languages: Go, Ruby, Python and Rust
- Platforms: RDS Postgres, DynamoDB, Elasticache (Redis/Valkey/Memcd), Elasticsearch, EC2 and selected GCP services
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
- Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
