This role pays more than
91%
of similar roles. Most pay
$182,500–$241,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$272k
versus about
$212k
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.
Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations joins the Data Infrastructure organization to serve as a technical leader for the open lakehouse foundation and multi-engine compute strategy. This role involves owning architecture and delivery of unified table formats, storage governance, and real-time streaming infrastructure for critical use cases like fraud and advertising. The engineer will translate data strategy into multi-year roadmaps, manage cost efficiency, and pioneer AI-native infrastructure by integrating LLM tools into the platform lifecycle. Key responsibilities include mentoring staff engineers, leading architecture reviews, and managing complex trade-offs. The technical stack includes Apache Iceberg, Flink, Trino, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, Airflow, dbt, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, Postgres, and AWS. The role addresses the challenge of balancing high-scale reliability with cost optimization across a complex data ecosystem.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.
Databricks
Delta Lake
Unity Catalog
AWS
Python
Java
SQL
NoSQL
Data Engineering
Data Modeling
Machine Learning
Data Governance
Fivetran
HVR
Vault
Data Observability