Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Instacart is transforming the grocery industry and seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Storage team. The role involves owning and building foundational engineering components, focusing on large-scale caching and storage solutions to support millions of customers and ensure system reliability and performance.

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 in-memory storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide

Requirements:

• 4+ 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 in-memory datastore (ideally Valkey or Redis)
• 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
• Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure
• You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
• You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully