Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations

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 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. a;source=gmail;ust=;usg= Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacarts Data Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that power our company’s data ecosystem including a modern open data lakehouse on Apache Iceberg a multi-engine compute platform for stream and analytical workloads and self-serve tooling that helps Product Data Science ML Ads Finance and engineering teams move fast with data. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer Data Infrastructure to join our Data Governance and Foundations Team. In this role you’ll serve as a senior technical leader owning the architecture and delivery of our open lakehouse foundation governance and access patterns and multi-engine compute strategy balancing today’s reliability with the next three to five years of scale maturity and cost efficiency. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leadership and stakeholders across Data Science ML Platform Ads Infrastructure Finance Engineering Product Engineering and Security. You’ll operate with a high degree of ownership in a fast-paced environment where architectural decisions have real technical and financial consequences. If you thrive on complex high-scale challenges and roll-up-your-sleeves execution this is a chance to shape the backbone of Instacart’s data platform. Our stack includes technologies such as Apache Iceberg Apache Flink Trino ClickHouse Apache Kafka Apache Spark