Associate Security Engineer
OVERVIEW
We're looking for an Associate Security Engineer to join our fast moving 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.
Our goal is to run the world's most trusted and secure grocery delivery platform. We work across all layers of our infrastructure to ensure we deploy trustworthy systems and protect our customers’, shoppers’, and partners’ data.
As one of the early 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. Our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time, all of the time.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Develop techniques and frameworks proactively to find and fix security issues
- Identify gaps and weaknesses in the security processes and solutions
- Conduct application design, code reviews and penetration tests on an ongoing basis
- Perform research on the new attack vectors that might affect Instacart and present the findings
- Provide security training and outreach to our internal development teams to achieve a consistently high security bar
- Participate in incident response and bug bounty program triage processes
ABOUT YOU
- Dexterity to identify, analyze, scope, contain and eradicate real-world threats
- Knowledge of web application vulnerabilities, threats and mitigations
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
- Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership
- Experience with Ruby and/or Python or the desire to learn them quickly
- Experience level - Junior or Recent graduate
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with the best engineers in the industry
- Market competitive compensation and excellent benefits
- Dedicated mentor