OverviewInstacart is transforming the grocery industry. We invite the world to share love through food because everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get groceries and household goods, while offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart is a Flex First team, with the flexibility to choose where work is done—home, office, or another location—while staying connected through regular in-person events.About The JobInstacart's Data Governance and Foundations team builds the core infrastructure that keeps data trusted, secure, and compliant across regions. We partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, and Engineering to translate regulatory requirements like SOX and GDPR into resilient, scalable systems that power safe data access and accelerate the business.As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and deliver platform capabilities for policy management, role-based data access, auditing, data classification, and lineage across Instacart's modern data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Iceberg, Trino). Your work will enable product teams, analysts, and data scientists to innovate confidently while meeting privacy and compliance standards.You'll join a collaborative team of 6–7 engineers focused on foundational infrastructure, with opportunities to lead high-impact architecture, influence standards, and mentor others.Design, build, and operate services and tooling for role-based and attribute-based access control, policy enforcement, auditing, and data classification across Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, and Iceberg-backed datasets.Develop event-driven controls and metadata pipelines (e.G., Kafka-based)



to automate governance workflows, detect drift, and continuously validate compliance posture.Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Security to translate requirements (e.G., GDPR, SOX, PII handling) into technical controls, runbooks, and demonstrable evidence for audits.Own projects end-to-end—from architectural design and implementation to reliability, performance, and operability—setting and meeting clear SLOs in a quick-paced environment.Standardize and evangelize best practices for data privacy, schema evolution, cataloging/lineage, and policy-as-code across Instacart's data platform and partner teams.About YouMinimum QualificationsBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of software engineering experience building backend or platform services for data-intensive or distributed systems.Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go, plus strong SQL skills.Hands-on experience with modern data platforms, including at least two of the following: Snowflake, Databricks, Trino/Presto, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka.Demonstrated experience implementing data security controls (e.G., RBAC/ABAC, row/column-level security, tokenization, or dynamic data masking) in production.Experience operating services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure),



including monitoring, incident response, and on-call participation.Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects in a rapidly changing environment.Preferred QualificationsDeep knowledge of distributed systems concepts (consensus, partitioning, streaming semantics, exactly-once processing, schema compatibility).Familiarity with data privacy and compliance frameworks (e.G., GDPR, SOX) and building auditable technical controls and evidence pipelines.Experience with data cataloging and lineage (e.G., Unity Catalog, DataHub, OpenLineage) and policy frameworks (e.G., OPA/Rego, Apache Ranger, Lake Formation).Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code (e.G., Terraform) and policy-as-code practices to standardize governance across environments.Ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive alignment across Legal, Compliance, Security, and Engineering partners.Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.CAN$168,000—$177,500 CAD#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance And Foundations - C$168,000 - C$177,500 A Year (Vancouver)
🏢 Instacart
📍 Vancouver