Design, build, and maintain high-quality dimensional data models and ELT pipelines that support marketing analytics across Paid Marketing, SEO, and Retailer Marketing, and attribution
Work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Data Engineers, and Marketing stakeholders to understand analytical needs, translate business questions into data requirements, and deliver trusted, decision-ready data assets
Lead efforts in data modeling, metric definition, testing, and documentation, owning data quality and resolving issues at their root cause across critical marketing workflows
Set standards and guide execution for marketing data pipelines, reviewing designs and implementations to ensure reliability, scalability, and analytical usability
Improve and evolve existing marketing data pipelines and workflows to reduce manual effort, improve performance, and increase the speed and confidence of analysis
Develop scalable analytics engineering patterns, including dimensional models, testing frameworks, and monitoring approaches, to support evolving marketing measurement needs.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or closely related roles, with clear ownership of production data systems
Advanced SQL skills and deep experience designing well-architected dimensional data models (star schemas, fact/dimension tables, SCDs)
Hands-on experience with the modern data stack, including dbt, Snowflake, and Airflow
Strong understanding of marketing data and metrics, including paid media performance, attribution concepts, and channel-level measurement
Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership on complex data projects, including setting standards, guiding execution, and supporting the growth of other engineers
Excellent judgment and product thinking — you know how to balance speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability.

Benefits

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Analytics EngineeringData EngineeringSQLdimensional data modelsstar schemasfact tablesdimension tablesslowly changing dimensions (SCDs)data modelingtesting frameworks

Soft Skills

technical leadershipjudgmentproduct thinking