Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Overview We\'re transforming the grocery industry. At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we\'re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you\'re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team with a flexible approach to where we work — from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop — while staying connected through regular in-person events. About The Role Are you ready to take your development skills to the next level? We\'re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ads team. You\'ll play a critical role in the evolution of our Ads suite and help build world-class reporting solutions across various platforms, ensuring that advertisers and retailers receive timely, accurate, and actionable data insights. By working closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and other cross-functional partners, you\'ll contribute to the advancement of our Ads suite and guarantee a seamless flow of data to our users. The Instacart Ads team is at the forefront of refining our Ads products and supporting infrastructure, so your work will directly enhance our capability to process petabyte-scale data and deliver reports essential for billing, strategic decision-making, and partner management. Our products are used by millions of people every year. To meet–and exceed–expectations we are rapidly improving and modernizing our ads platform, helping raise the quality bar for our products across the entire organization. About The Team The Ads team is a diverse group of spirited and highly-dedicated engineers focused on crafting and delivering comprehensive reporting solutions to our advertisers and retailers. We thrive on dynamic challenges and maintain scalable and fault-tolerant metrics delivery systems. We value open and candid collaboration where everyone\'s views matter, allowing us to continuously innovate and make a substantial impact to the digital advertising industry through our work. Our tech stack includes Rails, Go, DBT, Airflow, Scala, Apache Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Python and Terraform. If you\'re a detective at heart, love solving complex problems, and are passionate about the intersection of data and technology, you\'ll fit right in. Current Hiring Teams Ads Measurement & Data: Our cutting-edge data team builds scalable ETLs and the underlying architecture and platform to support billing, attribution, spam detection, and more. We use Scala-Spark, Airflow, DBT, Python, and Go to meet cross-functional needs and shape our data strategy. Advertiser Optimization: We power Instacart\'s advertising business with innovative solutions that maximize ad performance and deliver measurable value to partners. The team uses advanced algorithms, machine learning, and a robust data ecosystem to drive revenue growth and advertiser success. 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, experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and web frameworks such as Rails. Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging. Ability to design for scale with the entire system in mind. Strong communication skills and comfort seeking and receiving feedback. Analytical and debugging skills with a strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase. Collaborative mindset to partner with engineers, designers and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions. Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly to stakeholders at multiple levels. 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. Attention to detail and accuracy in implementation, with a keen eye for edge cases and code reviews. Data-driven mindset. Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits. This role is remote and the base pay range depends on location. We are currently hiring in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Offers may vary based on experience and skills. This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. For Canadian candidates, the base pay ranges are listed in CAD. #J-18808-Ljbffr