About the Role
Job Overview Instacart's Data Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that power our company’s data ecosystem, including an open data lakehouse on Apache Iceberg, a multi-engine compute platform, and self‑serve tooling that helps Product, Data Science, ML, Ads, Finance, and engineering teams move fast with data. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure to join our Data Governance and Foundations Team.
Responsibilities
Translate Instacart’s data strategy (e.g., monetization, federated access, real‑time) into an actionable multi‑year architecture roadmap; align with leadership while evolving the platform for scale, maturity, and cost efficiency.
Own the open lakehouse foundation: define and deliver unified table formats, storage governance, and a multi‑engine compute portfolio (interactive, batch, streaming) that enables portability and prevents lock‑in.
Drive real‑time and streaming infrastructure for criti...
Responsibilities
Translate Instacart’s data strategy (e.g., monetization, federated access, real‑time) into an actionable multi‑year architecture roadmap; align with leadership while evolving the platform for scale, maturity, and cost efficiency.
Own the open lakehouse foundation: define and deliver unified table formats, storage governance, and a multi‑engine compute portfolio (interactive, batch, streaming) that enables portability and prevents lock‑in.
Drive real‑time and streaming infrastructure for criti...
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