# Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** CA$196k – CA$207k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, Ruby, Go, Rest, gRPC, dbt, Airflow, Spark, Databricks, SQL, Snowflake, AWS, Temporal, CI/CD, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads architecture and delivery of large-scale advertising data systems, including off-platform integrations, cleanroom workflows, taxonomy automation, and measurement pipelines. The role requires 8+ years of backend or data engineering experience, strong Python, data-platform expertise, privacy knowledge, and hands-on AI-assisted development.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Technical leadership and roadmap
- Lead architecture for reusable, scalable systems across off-platform workflows, cleanrooms, taxonomy automation, and the Ads Data Solutions Platform.
- Evolve core abstractions, testing, CI/CD, observability, and cost efficiency; drive modernization.
- Propose and drive engineering initiatives, align stakeholders, and manage dependencies.

### Pillar execution
- Expand and harden integrations with external advertising platforms.
- Design privacy-forward activation and identity workflows and build measurement ingestion pipelines for reach, frequency, and conversion signals.
- Extend cleanroom orchestration and governance tooling, including multi-cleanroom support and policy enforcement.
- Develop reusable query templates and partner configurations; optimize pipelines for cost and performance.
- Lead Ads Taxonomy intake automation and release workflow improvements.
- Contribute to platform modernization, developer tooling, and on-call/SLO strategy.

### AI-first engineering
- Use AI-assisted tools for design, coding, testing, and documentation.
- Define team prompt patterns and workflows and identify AI opportunities in internal tools and operations.
- Evaluate AI versus deterministic systems and apply appropriate evaluation, guardrail, security, and privacy practices.

### Quality, privacy, and security
- Translate ambiguous requirements into pragmatic POC, pilot, and production phases with clear SLAs/SLOs.
- Champion security-by-design, data governance, and privacy compliance, including GDPR and CCPA, across data pipelines.

### Mentorship and collaboration
- Mentor engineers up to L5 and establish code quality and review standards.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Data Platform, Governance, Ads Manager, Measurement Science, Privacy/Legal, and external platforms.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering and operating large-scale backend or data systems, with cross-team leadership and architectural decision-making.
- Strong Python and one of Ruby or Go.
- Experience building services and APIs using REST or gRPC.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs, including advertising platforms.
- Experience with data pipelines using dbt and Airflow, Spark or Databricks, advanced SQL, and performance tuning.
- Experience with Snowflake, AWS, cost-aware design, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, and event-driven patterns.
- Experience with ad-tech or programmatic advertising, measurement integrations, cleanrooms, identity or matching, and deconfliction.
- Working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA in data workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD, containers, testing strategies, observability, incident readiness, and SLOs.
- Recent hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or OpenAI-based assistants.
- Experience defining reusable prompts or workflows and contributing to AI-enabled internal tools or automation.
- Clear technical writing, stakeholder management, consensus building, and execution skills.

## Nice to have

- UID2 or The Trade Desk integrations.
- Roku, PubMatic, NBCUniversal, Meta Advanced Analytics, or Google ADH pipelines.
- Catalog, taxonomy, entity lineage, or custom hierarchy systems.
- Snowflake governance patterns and partner data collaboration at scale.
- Vendor or partner management and external API certification programs.
- AI-powered internal tools such as Slackbots or data assistants.

## Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: CA$196,000–CA$207,000 CAD, dependent on permanent work location.
- Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Market-competitive compensation and benefits for Canadian employees.
- Remote work is currently available to employees in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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