Senior Software Engineer II, Marketing Enablement & Technology

Instacart

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$230,000–$242,500 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $236k
$105k most similar roles pay here $257k

This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$190,562 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$207,000 across 49 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer II, Marketing Enablement & Technology

As a Senior Software Engineer II, Marketing Enablement & Technology, you will join the Marketing organization to build systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Paid Marketing channels. You will provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod, where you will drive the technical roadmap, make architectural decisions for scalability, and improve developer productivity through better tooling and processes. Your daily work involves managing campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation while championing observability, resilience, cost optimization, and security-by-design. You will partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders to influence product design and manage technical debt. The role requires expert-level proficiency in Python to build reusable abstractions and frameworks. You will also mentor engineers and serve as a domain expert in marketing technology ecosystems and ad tech platforms to solve complex growth challenges.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive the technical roadmap and architectural decisions to build scalable systems for marketing platforms.
  • Develop reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns using Python to serve multiple projects.
  • Improve developer productivity by evolving internal processes, tools, and code quality standards.
  • Partner with Product and Marketing leaders to influence product design and strategic technical initiatives.
  • Implement advanced observability, resilience, cost optimization, and security-by-design across all team projects.
  • Mentor engineers and serve as a force multiplier through well-documented processes and conflict resolution.
  • Lead large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and manage technical debt at the team level.
  • Act as a domain expert for marketing technology to guide cross-functional initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • 8–12 years of software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise in leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions for team-level systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns.
  • Deep knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations.
  • Proven ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders to influence product roadmaps.
  • Track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentoring engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills to drive cross-functional initiatives and navigate organizational dependencies.
  • Preferred experience in ad tech platforms, marketing technology ecosystems, and AI-assisted development tools.

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