Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations Company: Instacart Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:08:23 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, ClickHouse, Data Lakehouse, Databricks, Delta Lake, Flink, Iceberg, Kafka, LLM, Move, PostgreSQL, Python, SAFe, Scala, Snowflake, Spark, dbt About the job Required Skills: •Translate Instacart’s data strategy (e.g., monetization, federated access, real-time) into an actionable multi-year architecture roadmap; align with leadership while evolving the platform for scale, maturity, and cost efficiency. •Own the open lakehouse foundation: define and deliver unified table formats, storage governance, and a multi-engine compute portfolio (interactive, batch, streaming) that enables portability and prevents lock-in. •Drive real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases (Ads, Fraud, ML): set deployment patterns, SLAs, and operational practices that balance performance, availability, and spend. •Pioneer AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools to the platform lifecycle—accelerating development, automation, observability, an Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!