Software Engineering Intern contributing to Tonal’s product roadmap while developing AI - assisted automation solutions. Collaborating with engineering teams to leverage new technologies and boost productivity.
About the role
- Senior Software Engineer on Data Governance and Foundations team at Instacart. Designing platform capabilities for policy management, data access, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- 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 fast-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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’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.
Benefits
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
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