Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering

Instacart

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$230,000–$242,500 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $157,187–$238,312 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

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About Instacart

Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) is a North American grocery technology company that operates an online marketplace and delivery service connecting customers with personal shoppers who pick and deliver orders from local retailers. It also sells retail e-commerce software and advertising services to grocers and brands.

Instacart currently has 29 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$207,000 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering

The Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering joins the Ads DSE team to co-own the technical roadmap and modernize data solutions infrastructure. This role involves designing and shipping scalable, data-intensive systems for off-platform advertising, secure data collaboration cleanrooms, and automated taxonomy management. You will build measurement ingestion pipelines, extend cleanroom orchestration, and develop reusable abstractions while leading cross-team execution. Key technologies include Python, Ruby, Go, SQL, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS, alongside tools like DBT, Airflow, Temporal, and Datadog. You must demonstrate AI fluency using tools like GitHub Copilot to improve development workflows. The work addresses complex ad-tech problems, including privacy-forward identity workflows, GDPR/CCPA compliance, and performance signal tracking for external advertising platforms.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture for scalable systems across off-platform workflows, cleanrooms, and taxonomy automation.
  • Expand and harden integrations with external advertising platforms and build measurement ingestion pipelines.
  • Extend cleanroom orchestration and governance tooling to support multi-cleanroom configurations and policy enforcement.
  • Automate ads taxonomy intake and release workflows to reduce manual effort and cycle time.
  • Translate ambiguous product requirements into pragmatic production phases with clear SLAs and SLOs.
  • Use AI-assisted tools daily for coding and design while defining team prompt patterns and workflows.
  • Mentor engineers up to level L5 and set high standards for code quality and technical reviews.
  • Champion security-by-design and data privacy compliance across all data pipelines.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering and operating large-scale backend/data systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one of Ruby or Go.
  • Experience with services/APIs (REST/gRPC) and third-party integrations like Meta, Google, or The Trade Desk.
  • Experience with data pipelines using DBT, Airflow, Spark/Databricks, and advanced SQL.
  • Experience with Snowflake, AWS, and workflow orchestration tools like Temporal.
  • Experience with ad-tech, programmatic measurement, cleanrooms (Snowflake DCR), and identity/matching (UID2, RampID).
  • Demonstrated, recent hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools to improve speed and quality.
  • Experience with CI/CD, containers, observability tools like Datadog, and incident readiness.

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