Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Instacart

Posted 3mo ago

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4+ years of working experience as a software engineer in large-scale cloud services or application development
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
Strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers and automation/scale for systems
Ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes
Highly productive, shipping code, reviewing PRs, and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices
Ability to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team
Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
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
Knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet changing business needs

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure
Mentor other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
Solving high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs

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