Senior Software Engineer, Data Security

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

OVERVIEW

We're looking for experienced Engineers to join our fast moving security team. We work on a range of interesting and challenging problems, from supporting thousands of concurrent shoppers and processing millions of data points in real time, to determining the best route for deliveries and predicting store inventory levels.

At Instacart, we hold ourselves greatly responsible for protecting our customers', shoppers', partners' data and provide a secure platform to shop. As one of the members of the security team, you will have a tremendous impact on Instacart's security posture and engineering culture. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a large sense of ownership, grow extraordinarily in their career, develop cross-functional, technical, and soft skills.

About the Team

You will be an early member of an exciting team that will be responsible for developing data security-focused features and frameworks for Instacart in both production and infrastructure space. You will have an opportunity to lead high impactful projects across the platform and assist in defining the internal team processes. You will be directly influencing the security and privacy posture of many products and systems across the company. 

ABOUT THE JOB

• Design, implement and ship high-quality data security features for the product and internal tools across Instacart with a strong sense of urgency and accountability such as:
• Tokenization engine to de-identify personally identifiable information (PII)
• Data mapping and classification via database annotations
• Data analytics hardening 
• Work closely with product managers, legal, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
• Identify unaddressed areas of data security weakness and help the teams come up with efficient and scalable solutions.
• Provide software engineering resource for sister teams in the areas of infrastructure hardening, detection, and response
• Participate in the team’s on-call by handling and running incidents

ABOUT YOU

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Security or Software Security related role in a product environment
• Strong knowledge of common back-end web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, etc) in a large scale distributed system environment
• An ability to make data-driven decisions & prioritize initiatives that would help improve the key metrics. 
• An ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and drive alignment on data security objectives and plans. 
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high-quality and pragmatic solutions.
• Strong self-management and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in software development with Ruby on Rails
• Experience working with highly ephemeral environments
• Prior experience assisting in handling and running incidents
• Prior experience dealing with privacy compliance (CPRA, CCPA, GDPR)

#LI-Remote

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 here.

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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ$184,500—$230,000 USDWA$176,400—$220,000 USDOR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$169,200—$211,000 USDAll other states$153,900—$192,000 USD

Accommodations & Accessibility

At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.