Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Instacart

Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup

Tech

From a technology point of view, our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our technology coupled with operational expertise enables Instacart to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. We use a modern stack including Ruby/Rails, Python, React and many more technologies.

The role

We're looking for an experienced Software Developer to join our infrastructure team. We're a small team that moves fast. We code mostly in Python and our infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services. Come join us! ### Responsibilities * You will create tools for software engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to easily run their production (and staging) services. * You will be part of a team of 7 with a large amount of ownership and responsibility across our development org. * You will own the security and availability of critical infrastructure components. ### Requirements * 3+ years of industry experience * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent work experience * Strong coding ability * Strong understanding of Linux and how to manage servers * Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2 * Experience with configuration management, such as SaltStack or Ansible * Experience with micro-services (Docker) * The ability to ship pragmatic solutions with a high sense of urgency * Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership ### Desirable * The ability to analyze data with SQL * Experience with Python, Ruby, or JavaScript * Experience with web frameworks, like Ruby on Rails * Experience with Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch * Open-source projects or contributions

Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Python