Instacart

Senior/Staff Product Security Engineer

Remote US
USD 173k - 260k
AWS GCP Kubernetes Python Go
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Description

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 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 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, in not just security, but engineering overall. Our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time, all of the time.

ABOUT THE JOB

  • Build, deploy and maintain tools to help with security intrusion detection, audit, and response.
  • Investigate and respond to security incidents, automating the investigation and/or remediation where possible
  • Conduct application design and code reviews on an ongoing basis
  • Help identify risk patterns and offer proactive defense suggestions
  • Create, review and maintain RBAC policies across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes in line with the principles of least privilege
  • Work with stakeholders across the organization, provide security training and outreach to our internal development teams to achieve a consistently high security bar

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with Python and/or Go or the desire to learn them quickly
  • 7+ years of experience with Cloud Infrastructure Security (AWS/GCP) and SOA patterns
  • Solid understanding of application security concepts and best practices
  • Ability to understand application and system architectures holistically
  • Dexterity to identify, analyze, scope, contain and eradicate real-world threats
  • Experience with Secure development life-cycle (SDLC) practices including threat modelling and security testing

Desirable

  • Experience with GDPR, CCPA and SOC2 compliance
  • Experience running bug bounty programs and triaging/resolving security vulnerabilities in the application layer.

#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
$207,000$260,000 USD
WA
$198,000$249,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$190,000$238,000 USD
All other states
$173,000$217,000 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.

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