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Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations

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Location as listed by the employer: “United States - Remote; Remote - United States”
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About this role

Instacart is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating data infrastructure or distributed systems at production scale.
  • Hands-on expertise with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi) and with distributed query/compute engines (e.g., Trino, Spark, ClickHouse), including performa…
  • Experience with event-driven and streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time pipelines and serving systems.
  • Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations (build vs. buy, migration design, risk management) delivered to production.
  • Ability to build cost/benefit and TCO models for infrastructure investments and to drive alignment via clear architecture docs and strategy memos across multiple teams and leadership levels.
  • Experience designing platform-level governance controls and familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, CPRA, GDPR).
  • FinOps experience optimizing data platform spend, including managing multi-million dollar infrastructure budgets and negotiating vendor contracts.
  • Deep SQL proficiency and strong skills in Python or Scala for systems-level development.

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