Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Instacart

. You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.

Posted 5/12/2026full-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💰 $166,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.
You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to in-memory storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized in-memory datastore (ideally Valkey or Redis)
1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems.
The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly.
You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.
Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
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, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet the changing needs of the business.

Benefits

Comp & perks

highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
remote work policy allows flexibility for employees
new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants

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Hard Skills & Tools

in-memory datastoreValkeyRediscloud-based control-plane softwareback-end web technologieslarge-scale solutionsapplication developmentautomationscalabilitycode reviews

Soft Skills

self-motivationownershipproblem-solvingproductivitycommunicationdelegationdesign skillsteam alignmentadaptabilityleadership