Senior Data Engineer, Finance

Instacart

. You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions .

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $183,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudETLPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions
You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization
You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap
You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data)
Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment
Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind
Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool)
Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes
Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts
Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team

Benefits

Comp & perks

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
Review our Flex First remote work policy
Learn more about our benefits offerings

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata pipelinesdata modelingETLELTSQLdbtPythonAirflowSpark

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationownershipautonomycollaborationurgencypragmatism