Staff Data Platform Engineer Ads

Shape Instacart’s Ads data platform remotely with Spark, SQL, and distributed systems expertise. Build compliant, reliable infrastructure for critical advertising workflows.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will advance a robust data platform addressing strategic challenges within Ads and Instacart. You will support metrics transformation, billing, spam detection, and lift testing. The work serves advertisers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and sales teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead complex data platform problems while maintaining the broader vision
• Design systems enforcing compliance, integrity, and consistency requirements
• Collaborate across engineering teams and provide technical mentorship
• Oversee initiatives, manage risks, and ensure delivery
• Review technical artifacts aligned with business goals

Requirements:

• Eight or more years of software development experience
• Expertise in Spark, ETLs, SQL, and Big Data infrastructure
• Experience with distributed systems architecture and MapReduce
• Ability to manage ambiguity and conflicting stakeholder requirements
• Strong background in Scala and functional programming preferred

Lead Ads data architecture at Instacart using Spark, SQL, distributed systems, and compliance-focused engineering practices.