Senior Software Engineer, Data

📋 Description

• Join Instructure's AI data platform team building models, pipelines, and services for AI features
• Design data models and storage architectures across relational, graph, and retrieval-oriented data
• Build and operate APIs, backend services, and pipelines to keep data current
• Develop reliable ingestion/update workflows with incremental processing and safe backfills
• Own data correctness, query performance, and scalability as data volume grows
• Turn prototypes into production-ready data services and retrieval components

🎯 Requirements

• Six+ years in production backend, data, or distributed systems
• Strong Python and SQL, API design, schema design, and large/complex datasets
• Relational data experience; know when to use graph or specialized databases
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines, data-quality checks, and backfills
• API contracts, versioning, error handling, and performance-minded service design
• Experience deploying/operating AWS services with containers, CI/CD, and monitoring

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus ownership program
• Flexible work culture: remote, hybrid, or in-office depending on role
• Generous time off and wellness programs
• Learning and development resources and tuition reimbursement
• Tools and resources to do your best work
• Motivosity recognition and inclusive culture