Instacart is looking for a Data Engineer to join our Finance data engineering team. This team plays a critical role in defining how financial data is modeled and standardized for uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate reporting. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart's products.
What You'll Do
- Be part of a team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy.
- Work closely with engineers and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
- Ship high quality, scalable, and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
- Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines.
- Expert with SQL and knowledge of Python.
- Experience building high quality ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Past experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts.
- Experience building data pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
- Experience with cloud-based data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, or similar.
- Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets.
- A strong sense of ownership, and 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.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience.
- Experience with Snowflake, dbt (data build tool) and Airflow.
- Experience with data quality monitoring/observability, either using custom frameworks or tools like Great Expectations, Monte Carlo etc.
Technical Stack
- SQL, Python, Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, dbt, Airflow
Team & Environment
Finance data engineering is part of the Infrastructure Engineering pillar, working closely with accounting, billing & revenue teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $161,000 — $170,000 CAD + equity: This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Instacart is an equal opportunity employer.






