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Senior Software Engineer, Ads

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Overview

  • Ads Measurement & Data: Our cutting-edge data team is responsible for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable ETLs and its underlying architecture and platform. We directly support critical internal and external systems and metrics such as billing, attribution, spam detection, etc. Our non-functional requirements are achieved through streaming and batch processing using Scala-Spark, Airflow, DBT, Python, and Go. If you're interested in working cross-functionally with several key stakeholders, helping shape our data strategy, building distributed systems, and solving complex data architecture challenges in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, this could be the opportunity for you!
  • Advertiser Optimization: We power Instacart’s advertising business by creating innovative solutions that maximize ad performance and deliver measurable value to our partners. Through advanced algorithms, machine learning, and a robust data ecosystem, the team helps advertisers achieve their goals while driving Instacart’s revenue growth. By fostering a cycle of success for advertisers, they play a pivotal role in the company’s overall business success.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience (4+ years).
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web frameworks such as Rails.
  • Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging.
  • You can design for scale with the entire system in mind.
  • Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills.
  • Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of products.
  • A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior work experience in the digital advertising industry.
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines.
  • Proven experience with distributed system design.
  • Strong general programming and algorithm skills.
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews.
  • Data driven mindset.
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