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 Security Engineers 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
- Delivering and executing a compelling security strategy spanning across multiple product teams and acquisitions
- Evaluate, prototype, implement, and support security-focused tools and services
- Partner with senior leaders across Instacart to help deliver company-wide security initiatives
- Oversee the analysis of business requirements and the interpretation into security deliverables
- Maintain strong knowledge of current security threats, mitigations and operational best practices
- Lead cross-functional projects and establishing cutting-edge security development lifecycle practices
- Develop new secure security protocols, frameworks and reference architecture spanning multiple layers
- Provide consultation in security architecture design/review of new products and services
- Establish credibility as a trusted advisor to stakeholders including partners, executives, and peers
ABOUT YOU
- 15+ years of technical security leadership at top-tier cloud-native companies, including experience with cryptography, security products, threat modeling, security design, infrastructure security, security architecture, PKI, and broader security technologies
- Security Engineering experience within a technology organization, including software development, cloud computing and mobile applications
- Experience with large-scale web applications and backend services, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption
- Experience defining security policy, technology requirements, and security best-practices
- Solid understanding of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations
- Experience implementing SDLC process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment
- Superior communication skills - ability to serve as a security advocate and evangelist
- Demonstrated technical foundation (Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent) with a business-savvy mindset and an innate ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into comprehensive organizational risks for senior leadership
- Strong ties with the broader security community to attract and hire great talent
- Bonus Points – Active contributor to the security community (Security research, CVEs, bug-bounty recognitions, open-source, blogs, publications…)
#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.
Top Skills
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