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Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance and Foundations at Instacart
Instacart(Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only))·4d ago
SeniorFull-timePythonJavaRustAWSGCPAzureTerraformGo
Salary Range
$86,190 - $116,610 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Governance and Foundations team. This role involves designing and delivering platform capabilities for policy management, role-based data access, auditing, data classification, and lineage across Instacart’s modern data stack.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design, build, and operate services and tooling for role-based and attribute-based access control, policy enforcement, auditing, and data classification across Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, and Iceberg-backed datasets.
- →Develop event-driven controls and metadata pipelines to automate governance workflows, detect drift, and continuously validate compliance posture.
- →Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Security to translate requirements into technical controls, runbooks, and demonstrable evidence for audits.
- →Own projects end-to-end—from architectural design and implementation to reliability, performance, and operability—setting and meeting clear SLOs in a fast-paced environment.
- →Standardize and evangelize best practices for data privacy, schema evolution, cataloging/lineage, and policy-as-code across Instacart’s data platform and partner teams.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- ✓5+ years of software engineering experience building backend or platform services for data-intensive or distributed systems.
- ✓Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go, plus strong SQL skills.
- ✓Hands-on experience with modern data platforms, including at least two of the following: Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka.
- ✓Demonstrated experience implementing data security controls in production.
- ✓Experience operating services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including monitoring, incident response, and on-call participation.
- ✓Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects in a rapidly changing environment.
