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 Flex 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. Learn more about our
flexible approach to where we work. [https://instacart.careers/remote/]
Overview
At Instacart, our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the
food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Millions of customers every
year use Instacart to buy their groceries online, and the Data Engineering team
is building the critical data pipelines that underpin all of the myriad of ways
that data is used across Instacart to support our customers and partners.
About the Job
- Design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and robust data pipelines
and ETL/ELT processes.
- Collaborate with engineers and both internal and external stakeholders,
owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the
solution.
- Work closely with product and data science partners to capture critical data
needed for various operational and analytical use cases.
- Drive organization-wide initiatives and suggest improvements to existing data
processes.
- Maintain a sense of urgency while shipping high-quality and pragmatic
solutions.
- Implement and maintain data quality monitoring and observability checks to
ensure data accuracy and reliability.
- Address and manage data ambiguity by developing robust data validation and
reconciliation processes.
- Utilize dbt (data build tool) and Spark to transform raw data into meaningful
datasets that meet business requirements.
- Define and document data requirements in collaboration with cross-functional
teams to ensure alignment and clarity.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a
focus on building data pipelines.
- Expert with SQL and knowledge of Python.
- Experience building high-quality ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Past experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing
dimensions, or similar concepts.
- Experience building data pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
- Experience with cloud-based data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks,
Trino/Presto, or similar.
- Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to
drive requirements and design shared datasets.
- A strong sense of ownership and 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical
engineering OR equivalent work experience.
- Experience with Snowflake, dbt (data build tool), Spark, and Airflow.
- Experience with data quality monitoring/observability, either using custom
frameworks or tools like Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, etc.
- Proven ability to manage and resolve data ambiguity through effective
validation and reconciliation processes.
- Strong understanding of data requirements gathering and documentation
practices.
- Experience leveraging AI to enhance data products.
LI-Remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each
location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range
for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please
review our Flex First remote work policy here
[https://instacart.careers/flex-first/]. Currently, we are only hiring in the
following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills
required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity
grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits
offerings here [https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/].
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate
are listed below.
CAN
$161,000—$179,000 CAD
