Instacart | San Francisco,CA | Full-Time | Onsite
The Data &amp; Analytics team at Instacart is new and you will have the opportunity to shape its direction as one of our Senior Data Engineers and create large impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
The ideal candidate is able to build and maintain a robust, scalable and sustainable enterprise data platform. Furthermore, s/he is well versed in the best practices of data warehousing, but is flexible enough to think outside the box whenever necessary. The Data Engineer should be no stranger to high-scale systems with complex data models and large amounts data coming form various sources.
Work closely with the analysts and business stakeholders to gather technical requirements
Provide senior-level contribution to a team responsible for the design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of a multi-terabyte data platform
Contribute the continual improvement of the Instacart data platform via your observations and knowledge gained from your involvement and KPI's
Work in a collaborative environment -- meetings, iterative development and design and code review sessions
 What You Should Already Have
Expert level proficiency in SQL. Ability to perform complex data analysis with large volumes of data
Working experience with variety of data storage technology, including columnar databases and Hadoop ecosystem
Experience in data warehousing including dimensional modeling concepts
Proficiency in at least one of the scripting languages: Perl, Python or others
Real-time data pipeline construction (like Kafka) a plus
Machine learning experience a plus
Experience building consumer facing data products (like recommendations or productionalized algorithms) a plus
Experience in object-oriented programming is a plus
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