Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

SpaceX

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Ontario, CanadaAlberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaNova Scotia, Canada
Salary
$254,000–$268,000 / yr
Posted
78 days ago
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21 roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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As a Staff Software Engineer on Instacart’s Data Governance and Foundations Team, you will lead the architecture and delivery of the company's open lakehouse foundation, governance patterns, and multi-engine compute strategy. This role involves translating data strategy into an actionable roadmap while ensuring scalability, maturity, and cost efficiency over the next three to five years. You will define unified table formats, storage governance, and a multi-engine compute portfolio that supports interactive, batch, and streaming workloads, enabling portability and preventing lock-in. Additionally, you will drive real-time infrastructure for critical use cases like Ads and Fraud by setting deployment patterns and operational practices. The team uses technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Trino, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, Airflow, dbt, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, Postgres, and AWS to build a robust data platform that supports various business units including Data Science, ML Platform, Ads Infrastructure, Finance Engineering, Product Engineering, and Security.

Skills

Apache_Iceberg Apache_Flink Trino ClickHouse Apache_Spark Snowflake Databricks Confluent Airflow dbt Delta_Lake Scala Python Postgres AWS Kafka Hudi CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Translate data strategy into a multi-year architecture roadmap for scalability and efficiency.
  • Own the open lakehouse foundation by defining unified table formats and storage governance.
  • Drive real-time infrastructure deployment patterns and operational practices for critical use cases.
  • Apply AI tools to accelerate development, automation, observability, and cost optimization.
  • Lead architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers while influencing hiring decisions.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with data infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on expertise in modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats like Apache Iceberg.
  • Experience with distributed query/compute engines including performance tuning and production reliability.
  • Proven ownership of major platform transitions or migrations delivered to production environments.
  • Ability to build cost/benefit models for infrastructure investments and drive alignment across teams.

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