Senior Software Engineer, Storage

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Senior Software Engineer responsible for Storage platforms at Instacart. Delivering high-quality, scalable solutions with ownership and team collaboration.

Responsibilities:

  • you will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.
  • you will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
  • you will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
  • you will have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to Storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.

Requirements:

  • 5+ 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 database (ideally PostgreSQL)
  • 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.
  • You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
  • You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.
  • 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.

Benefits:

  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • flexible work arrangements