Instacart is looking to solve some of the toughest technical challenges in a 4-sided marketplace, including delivering concrete impact to tens of millions of users and partners, while growing the Ads Engineering team to support the business' broadening growth.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience building and leading systems engineering
- Deep expertise in infrastructure and systems technologies
- Proficiency in one or more relevant systems programming languages (e.g., Go, Rust or C++) and application programming languages (eg: Python or Ruby)
- Experience and expertise with data engineering, ML infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and/or Ads technologies
- Experience with scalable, customizable service architectures
- Familiar with AWS, Golang, Spark, Clickhouse, Snowflake, TensorFlow
Responsibilities
- Leads, solves, and builds system innovations to solve some of the most challenging and interesting technical problems
- Establishes Ads' tech strategy and roadmap, balancing between both short-term needs and long-term sustainability
- Demonstrates ability to architect and design complex systems, considering scalability, reliability, performance, and security
- Serves as a technical leader and mentor, guiding and empowering junior engineers through code and design reviews, knowledge sharing, collaborative problem-solving, improving key engineering processes, and fostering a thriving engineering culture
- Grows and mentors engineering talent; identifies and develops the next set of leaders
- Builds and maintains synergies with other engineering teams across Instacart; acts as a bridge to represent Ads in company-wide engineering forums and activities
- Contributes to company-level tech initiatives as one of the company's most senior engineering leaders
Other
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate at the most senior engineering levels
- Proven track record of growing engineering culture and talent
- Note this is a hands-on IC / TL role at the Director+ level. There are no people management expectations
- Review our Flex First remote work policy
- US based candidates, with varying base pay ranges depending on location
