Senior Software Engineer, Ads

the opportunity for you! Advertiser Optimization: We power Instacart’s advertising business by creating innovative solutions that maximize ad performance and deliver measurable value to our partners. Through advanced algorithms, machine learning, and a robust data ecosystem, the team helps advertisers achieve their goals while driving Instacart’s revenue growth. By fostering a cycle of success for advertisers, they play a pivotal role in the company’s overall business success. About the Job We believe that high-quality data is essential for any business organization, as such we are looking for a strong software engineer excited to raise our efficiency, quality and scalability bar. You will be able to have extensive ownership and the ability to help set best practices and contribute to product and infrastructure features. As a craft leader, you'll be responsible for contributing to the vision, strategy and development of our multi-platform reporting system that is efficient, scalable, and meets diverse user needs. You will advocate for data quality, correctness, scalability and latency standards to ensure consistency in how we enable data-driven decisions and features across the organization. You will also be proactive in spearheading new initiatives, coding and documenting components, writing and reviewing system design documents and partnering with other teams and functions to gather and understand our customer's requirements. You will think and plan strategically for short and long term initiatives to continue shaping our platform and products. About You Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience (4+ years). 5+ years of experience in software engineering. Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web frameworks such as Rails. Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging. You can design for scale with the entire system in mind. Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback. Strong analytical and debugging skills. Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of products. A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions. Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level. Preferred Qualifications Prior work experience in the digital advertising industry. Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines. Proven experience with distributed system design. Strong general programming and algorithm skills. Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews. Data driven mindset. #LI-Remote Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here . Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here . For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CAN $168,000 — $177,500 USD