Software Engineer, Database Reliability
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.
OVERVIEW
As a cloud-native startup, Instacart continues to grow at a record pace. Both as a product and a company the rapid evolution and problem solving requires passionate and professional software engineers focused on the infrastructure. The development culture at Instacart is centered around Service Ownership which means this is not an “Ops Team” job. Our role is not to carry the pager for others but to engage with teams to help them make good design and operational decisions. We create storage solutions for Instacart that are scalable, reliable, and observable, and we write tools and interfaces for the application developers to make their use and ownership of storage seamless and efficient.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Assess application storage needs and build multi-facet storage solutions for different uses (for example: hot/cold data storage, source-of-truth data for analytics and volatile storage for in process use, denormalized data storage for different query patterns)
- Build tools for visibility and control of storage platforms
- Research and monitor scale breaking points
- Consult on schema architecture
- Mentor less experienced engineers
- Participate in rotations to cover interrupt work and incidents
- Open to remote applications, with preference for EDT timezone
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience
- Strong experience with Ruby/Python/Go/PostgreSQL/AWS are required
- Your understanding of database technologies goes beyond the surface. You enjoy exploring the details of what does and does not work well under the hood of a storage engine
- You have a customer focus. You are attentive to the needs of your application engineering partners and design solutions that fit their requirements
- You are experienced and professional enough to manage your time, deflect distractions when necessary and drive projects to completion
- You care about other people enough that you are thoughtful about what you say and open to feedback from others
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience
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Accommodations & Accessibility
At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.
