Senior Software Engineer, Catalog Store

Instacart, Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only) +1

The role

Instacart is powered by a robust set of cloud services, and every product a customer searches for, browses, or adds to their cart is served from storage systems the Catalog Store team builds and runs. We own the low-latency, application-facing storage and retrieval platform behind Instacart's product catalog, serving Search, Ads, shopper and customer apps, and AI systems across the company. Our platform includes sharded self-hosted PostgreSQL clusters, a high-frequency Go RPC service, Temporal-based ingestion pipelines, and a new in-house in-memory key-value store built for read-heavy workloads.

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Senior Software Engineer, Catalog Store

Instacart, Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only) +1

Posted pay

CA$168K–CA$178K

a year

Location: Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only) +1
Work type: Remote
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
SQL
Java
Go
C++
Rust
Terraform
PostgreSQL
gRPC
Redis
Snowflake
Posted: Today
Last check: 2 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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Experience operating services on AWS (e.g., EC2, S3) or another major cloud, including infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Production operations experience: observability (metrics, logs, traces), on-call participation, incident response and postmortems
Experience building or operating low-latency, high-throughput RPC services (gRPC or similar)
Experience self-hosting databases or other core infrastructure, including sharded or replicated clusters and fleet automation
Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar on code quality and best practices through code and design reviews
Clear written and verbal communication, including design documents, with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment across teams and stakeholders
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality, pragmatic solutions
Experience leading datastore or similar platform transformation initiatives with zero downtime, such as dual writes, shadow reads, backfills and staged traffic ramps
Familiarity with key-value or in-memory datastores (e.g., Valkey, Redis, Memcached) or distributed SQL databases (e.g., Yugabyte, CockroachDB)
Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal) or data pipelines from warehouses like Snowflake
A track record of measurable impact on latency, availability or cloud cost
Experience applying AI tools to speed up development and operations, or building AI-assisted tooling for your team

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CAN

$168,000—$177,500 CAD

Senior Software Engineer, Catalog Store

The role

Senior Software Engineer, Catalog Store

The role

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