Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Instacart

1d•Remote

About The Position

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Storage platforms. This role involves owning and building foundational engineering components for large-scale cloud services, focusing on caching and storage solutions that support millions of requests daily. The position offers the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems and design industry-defining features within a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The engineer will report to an engineering manager and have significant autonomy in setting technical direction.

Requirements

4+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized in-memory datastore (ideally Valkey or Redis)
1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems.
The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly.
Enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
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, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet the changing needs of the business.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure
You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully

Responsibilities

Own and build a whole new set of foundational engineering components in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.
Innovate automated monitoring & control-plane systems that run the clusters, as well as related supporting services like database proxies, snapshotting and backups.
Work with major cloud providers, supporting multiple environments for development and testing, data privacy and compliance at the infrastructure level.
Invest and prepare for Instacart’s future growth and success with forward-looking architectural shifts including distributed database systems, AI Agent-based monitoring and operations, tiered database storage.
Focus on solutions that directly impact Instacart through stability, productivity and cost management, visible at the Executive level.
Be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction.
Work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
Ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
Suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to in-memory storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.
Scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.