Senior Data Engineer

Who you are

• 8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data)
• Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
• Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment
• Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind
• Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool)
• Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes
• Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts
• Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets
• An 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent work experience
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool) and Airflow
• Experience with SOX controlled data systems

What the job involves

• Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online
• These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada
• Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry
• You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily
• Finance data engineering is part of the Data Infrastructure team, working closely with accounting, billing & revenue teams to support the monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing and internal/external financial reporting
• The team plays a critical role in defining how financial data is modeled and standardized for uniform, reliable, timely and accurate reporting
• This is a high impact, high visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart's products
• The team is still small and many of our bigger initiatives are at an early stage
• We expect you to work closely with stakeholders and shape these systems from design, technical decisions, project management to execution
• Your input will be critical for driving the Finance Data Strategy and building the platform that Instacart's financial data infrastructure will be built upon
• You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions
• You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization
• You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap
• You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting