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Senior Software Engineer II, Marketing Enablement & Technology

Instacart· Marketing
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Hybrid (Remote)$192k - $242.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for technical leadership of the Paid MarTech pod within Instacart's Marketing Enablement & Technology team. Drive architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and promote observability, resilience, cost optimization, and security-by-design across marketing tech platforms and data pipelines for Paid Marketing channels. Remote-friendly with flexible work locations.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs.
  • Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase.
  • Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions.
  • Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects.
  • Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams.

Qualifications

  • 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects.
  • Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities.
  • Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers.
  • Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies.

Skills

Required:PythonArchitectural leadershipObservabilitySecurity-by-designMentorshipCross-functional collaboration
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

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