
Instacart · United States - Remote
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...
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.
The CAPS team at Instacart is responsible for securing Cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and Product surfaces. We work closely
with all other engineering teams, enabling them to roll out new product features and internal productivity systems in a secure
way. Members of the CAPS team assume ownership of security risks and find solutions that mitigate whole classes of
vulnerabilities.
safe path the easy path for product teams.
AMI/image supply chain, secrets, audit) and extend them with internal tooling when off-the-shelf falls short.
bug is gone — not just one instance.
Minimum Qualifications
vulnerability management at scale, or secure infrastructure platform engineering.
glue scripts.
misconfigured.
Preferred Qualifications
management, supply-chain/AMI pipelines, secrets management, GRC automation, or similar.
rollout/grandfathering strategies.
and live threat findings (C2, credential abuse), plus running scan infrastructure across CI fleets.
access, auto-approval policies, and SoD constraints.
appetite to build that practice from a cloud-security foundation.
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.
WA
All other states
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 an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our growing Privacy Engineering team within Security Engineering. The Senior Engineering Manager of Privacy Engineering will be primarily responsible for the continued evolution of our privacy capabilities, including access request and deletion processing, annotating and securing sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), and effectively managing third party marketing trackers. You will lead the Privacy Engineering team in delivering privacy-by-design solutions that provide shared controls, data lifecycle management tooling, and other privacy-enhancing technologies that product teams utilize to embed privacy as a core feature in their products. Your commitment to applying secure privacy capabilities to business and technology challenges in clean & innovative ways will make you a trusted advisor to your partners and their teams. You will own projects and influence our direction and impact the business in tangible, visible ways, always having a seat at the table. ABOUT THE TEAM The Privacy Engineering team is a platform team in the Security Engineering organization that believes it should be easy to build products that respect our user’s privacy. To do this, we manage our internal data privacy architecture that includes systems to annotate, find, and delete data across production and offline data storage systems. Additionally, we build the front end components that product teams across Instacart use to give our users direct access to these internal systems. The Privacy team is a member of our core Privacy working group, that includes our Legal team, Compliance team, Operations teams, and privacy partners for each of our main product pillars. Additionally we work closely with our Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Security engineering teams to ensure privacy controls are in place effectively across all levels of our stack. RESPONSIBILITIES * Grow, develop, manage, and lead a multidisciplinary team of seasoned software and system engineers across all aspects of Privacy. * Advise executive and senior technical & business leadership on Instacart’s privacy vision through regular and consistent written and in-person communication. * Lead Privacy Engineering partnership with infrastructure and application teams, to ensure all products are developed and delivered with security and privacy in mind through Privacy by Design. * Implement policies and procedures that protect our customer and partner data. * Develop and provide metrics and reports to the senior leadership of the top privacy and security risks and health of their respective organizations. ABOUT YOU Minimum Qualifications * 12+ years of work experience in privacy engineering delivering holistic Privacy Engineering solutions and building privacy as part of the product. * 5+ years leadership experience of directly managing an org of 5+ senior level individual contributors * Proven ability to recruit/hire, upskill, lead, and scale teams. Should be able to handle performance management, customer negotiations and drive privacy centric decisions with other partners. * Strong distributed systems and cloud technology knowledge. * Ability to assess cost/benefit trade-offs of privacy initiatives in the context of overall business risk mitigation, and Instacart’s operational objectives. * Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related science/engineering fields (Mathematics, Engineering, etc.) * Working experience with policies such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, etc. * Real-world experience implementing privacy/trust/security measures which have shipped in a consumer product and/or service. #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 $265,000—$279,000 USD WA $254,000—$268,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $243,000—$256,000 USD All other states $221,000—$233,000 USD
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 About the Role - You will be a key member of the Security Engineering team that is tasked with researching, developing, and conducting offensive security techniques for a suite of Instacart products. We are looking for a breaker mindset security engineer who can scale out the discovery of security defects and anti-patterns to mature the security posture of Instacart product lines.. About the Team -The security team at Instacart is tasked with ensuring the security and privacy of Instacart’s suite of products and the company as a whole. We believe that with the right mixture of tools and engineering prowess, we can secure our most important assets without negatively impacting productivity. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment where continuous learning and growth are encouraged. ABOUT THE JOB Design and conduct offensive security operations / engagements for product and internal tools across Instacart. Deploy and operationalize a variety of open-source and commercially available security tools that can scale out and be maintained long term. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering and product, to integrate security testing into their SDLC cycle. Share knowledge and mentor other team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth.. ABOUT YOU MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS * 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Penetration Testing, demonstrating a strong grasp of product security concepts and principles * Experience in mobile app penetration testing, AI security testing or cloud penetration testing * Experience with threat modeling, security assessments, product security concepts, and security architecture reviews * An ability to make data-driven decisions & prioritize initiatives that improve key security metrics * An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high-quality and pragmatic solutions * Solid self-management and organizational skills * In-depth knowledge of the best remediation techniques for different application vulnerabilities and the ability to explain them to product teams * An ability to create written work products and detailed technical documents to work effectively with cross-functional teams and drive alignment on security objectives and plans. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related work experience * Bug bounty research experience #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 $230,000—$242,500 USD WA $220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $211,000—$222,500 USD All other states $192,000—$202,500 USD
THE OPPORTUNITY Join our Global IT Infrastructure team and take ownership of security operations that protect NavVis worldwide. You’ll lead detection and incident response across corporate IT and SaaS environments, working hand-in-hand with Service Delivery, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, and our Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. This is an hands-on role where you’ll make real impact—investigating threats, driving improvements, and shaping security processes. No ticket forwarding, no passive coordination—just meaningful responsibility and the chance to build a security posture you can be proud of. If you thrive on solving complex problems, love staying ahead of emerging threats, and want to safeguard technology that powers the future of spatial intelligence, we want to hear from you! HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT * Lead security incident response and drive continuous improvements. * Own Microsoft Defender, email security, and phishing protection. * Strengthen network security with IT Ops: firewalls, VPNs, segmentation. * Manage vulnerability scanning, remediation, and risk reporting. * Govern access reviews and enforce least privileges. * Run ISO 27001 & SOC 2 audits and coordinate via Vanta. * Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning. * Assess vendor security and monitor SaaS risk. * Research emerging threats and refine security playbooks. WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED IN THE ROLE * You have strong, hands-on experience across security operations, incident response, and forensic analysis in SaaS and hybrid IT environments. * You bring deep practical knowledge of Microsoft Defender, Entra ID, email security, identity-related incidents, and endpoint protection. * You are comfortable managing security topics from start to finish with minimal oversight. * You are a strong communicator who can break down complex security topics in simple actionable terms to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * You are experienced working with infrastructure teams to operate network and vulnerability security controls. * You demonstrate a proven ability to drive ISO 27001 OR SOC 2 audits end-to-end. * You bring pragmatic approaches to improving processes with a bias towards automation over manual work. HOW WE WILL KNOW WE ARE A PERFECT MATCH Your recruiting partner for this role is Sylvie (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and/or up to 4 rounds of interviews, where we would love to discover your passion and interests, introduce you to who we are and what drives us, and finally understand how we can potentially add value to each other's growth. HOW WE WILL KEEP YOU SMILING * It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year * Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy * Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport * We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work! * We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates * An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility * A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring * Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus * Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture! We derive our strength from our diversity. NavVis’ unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply. Together with you, we build NavVis! If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.