Senior Software Engineer, Data Security

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)

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