Senior Corporate Security Engineer

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.

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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 are seeking a skilled and highly motivated Senior Security Engineer to join our Corporate Security team. This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the direction of corporate security at Instacart, ensuring the protection of our corporate systems, and sensitive data. From securing our internal tools to safeguarding identity and access management systems, you’ll play a pivotal role in detecting and mitigating risks in our corporate environment.

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 the first engineer dedicated exclusively to corporate security, you will have the opportunity to define our corporate security strategy in collaboration with IT, engineering, and legal teams. You’ll also lead the implementation of security tools, frameworks, and processes to enhance the overall security posture of the company’s internal operations.

 

About the Team

The Corporate Security team ensures Instacart’s internal networks, corporate assets, and employee workflows are secure, scalable, and resilient. Our mission is to develop proactive security solutions that protect the company while enabling efficiency and operational velocity.

You will partner closely with multiple teams, primarily Corporate Engineering, to design and implement end-to-end security solutions:

• Infrastructure Engineering - To ensure that corporate security controls are built into our engineering workflows. 
• IT-Corporate Engineering - To build with and help them prioritize the right security improvements which ensure minimal impact to employee velocity. 
• Instacart Platform - To help them have best in class security in their own corporate environments. 

About the Job 

• Deploy systems and automations that ensure our corporate environment has best in class security. 
• Be the security partner for our IT-Corporate Engineering team. Uplevel their security skills and ensure they continue to prioritize security effectively.
•  Own and manage Instacart’s corporate security roadmap, and work with our detection and response team to ensure controls are monitored. 
• Develop and operationalize our vulnerability management program for our corporate network and assets. 

About You 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• 7+ years of experience in the Information Security field, including operational security monitoring experience with tools such as osQuery and Crowdstrike. 
• Strong background in corporate security systems and best practices relating to zero trust environments, Okta, Google Workspace, BeyondCorp, email security, etc.
• Experience developing tools and automation using common devops toolsets and programming languages. 
• Experience working in or with SRE or detection engineering and response teams Excellent communication skills - ability to serve as a security advocate and evangelist. 
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating and driving cross functional initiatives.

#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$225,000—$250,000 USDWA$216,000—$240,000 USDOR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$207,000—$230,000 USDAll other states$187,000—$208,000 USD