Senior Software Engineer, Digital Twin Platform

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Senior Software Engineer building Instacart’s real-time grocery inventory digital twin. Developing scalable data platforms and services for shelf intelligence, logistics, and fulfillment.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and operate platforms and services powering real-time understanding of products on store shelves
  • Develop data ingestion, processing, and serving systems combining partner data, inventory observations, and machine learning outputs into a reliable, scalable digital twin
  • Collaborate with machine learning engineers, computer vision engineers, product teams, and data scientists to move models and data pipelines from research to production
  • Address ambiguous, large-scale challenges across mapping, inventory, logistics, and computer vision while balancing delivery speed with architectural quality
  • Contribute to ownership and continuous improvement across the team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go
  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Track record of shipping production software with reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability
  • Preferred: experience with machine learning infrastructure, computer vision, image-based data pipelines, or annotation platforms
  • Preferred: experience with real-time, streaming, or geospatial services and systems in production
  • Preferred: experience building data-intensive products in e-commerce, retail, logistics, or grocery
  • Preferred: experience with edge devices, IoT, or hardware-software integration
  • Preferred: familiarity with Spark, Kafka, or Airflow

Benefits:

  • Flexible choice of work location, including home, office, or a favorite coffee shop
  • Regular in-person events
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits based on work location