Sr. Engineering Manager, Data Platform
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.
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OVERVIEW
The Data Platform team is a newly-formed infrastructure team responsible for providing Instacart with cutting-edge self-serve data infrastructure to store and process many petabytes of data. Our systems are critical to many teams across the business including Ads, Fulfillment, Fraud, and more, as Instacart’s data needs have scaled tremendously over the past few years.
Within Infrastructure, you will lead the Data Platform team as they work to architect and build a portfolio of data systems which support our critical business needs. You will ensure that the team is laser-focused on our internal customers, while also ensuring that we consistently stay ahead of technological trends in the fast-moving world of data and anticipate the future data requirements of the organization.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Lead a software engineering team that owns our most critical data infrastructure.
- Build and mentor a high-performing team of software engineers with deep infrastructure and systems expertise.
- Drive vision and strategy across all data infrastructure platforms at Instacart, and partner with platform engineering leaders across Instacart to influence priorities and create cohesive infrastructure roadmaps that span organizational boundaries.
- Provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system design and code review, and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems our team builds.
- Develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart.
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience managing a team of engineers. 7+ years designing, building and operating large scale data systems.
- Deep experience building systems with the modern data stack: Spark, Kafka, Flink or Spark Streaming, Snowflake, BigQuery or Presto/Trino, Airflow, Delta Lake or Iceberg, Pinot, etc.
- A strong product mindset, balancing business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience.
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