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Instacart

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Instacart

Senior Software Engineer enhancing Ads products at Instacart. Building reporting solutions and ensuring accuracy in data insights for advertisers and retailers.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 $168,000 - $177,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowDistributed SystemsRuby on RailsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Contribute to evolution of Ads suite and build world-class reporting solutions
  • Ensure timely, accurate, and actionable data insights for advertisers and retailers
  • Work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and cross-functional partners
  • Process petabyte-scale data and deliver reports essential for billing, strategic decision-making, and partner management
  • Improve and modernize ads platform and raise quality bar across the organization
  • Contribute to vision, strategy, and development of multi-platform reporting system
  • Advocate for data quality, correctness, scalability, and latency standards
  • Spearhead new initiatives, code, document components, and write/review system design documents
  • Partner with other teams to gather customer requirements and plan strategic initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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
  • Experience with common web frameworks such as Rails
  • Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries
  • Ability to design for scale with the entire system in mind
  • Solid communication skills, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills
  • Strong sense of ownership with large codebases and diverse product suites
  • Collaborative mindset to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to influence stakeholders at manager, director, and VP level

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Highly market-competitive compensation
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Flexible work arrangements (Flex First)
  • Remote work (Canada - ON, AB, BC, NS)
  • Benefits offerings referenced (link)

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringdistributed systemsdata processingDBTAirflowweb frameworksRailsSQLsystem designdata insights
Soft Skills
communicationanalytical skillsdebugging skillsownershipcollaborationorganizational skillsinfluencefeedbackstrategic thinkingcustomer requirements gathering
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeComputer ScienceSoftware Engineering