Senior Software Engineer – Marketing Enablement, Technology

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Senior Software Engineer architecting backend services and data pipelines for Instacart’s paid marketing systems. Leading campaign execution, conversion tracking, integrations, and technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead complete projects independently across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Define experimentation, development, and rollout strategies across multiple systems
  • Architect scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions for high-throughput marketing operations
  • Identify underlying technical problems and design reusable abstractions
  • Partner with Marketing and Product stakeholders to shape features, requirements, and strategy
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and onboarding
  • Improve team productivity through process improvements and automation

Requirements:

  • 5–8 years of software engineering experience with expert-level proficiency in Python for scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Proven track record of leading complete projects end-to-end, including architecture design, implementation, experimentation, and production rollout
  • Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL, ETL processes, Airflow, and DBT
  • Experience designing for performance, scalability, and robustness
  • Experience implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, and tracing
  • Strong product thinking and ability to make strategic technical and business trade-offs
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor engineers, drive cross-team alignment, and translate technical concepts
  • Preferred: automation frameworks, ad platform APIs, digital marketing operations and KPIs, cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, technical debt modernization, security-by-design, incident response, and AI-assisted development infrastructure

Benefits:

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