Ontario or Alberta or British Columbia or Nova Scotia remote Employment CAD 161,000 - 170,000 Yearly

Instacart is hiring a Data Engineer

About the Role

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.

Required Skills
SQLPythonSnowflakeDatabricksTrinoPrestodbtAirflowETLELTData PipelinesData Engineering
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Department Data and Analytics
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Posted 14 days ago