Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's Detection Engineering team and play a pivotal role in maintaining the company's security posture. Develop and run cloud-native data pipelines to gather security telemetry data. Participate in on-call rotation to provide support. Implement tools and frameworks to detect threats across Instacart environments. Contribute to improving detection and response processes and technologies. Collaborate with engineering, operations, and other security functions to ensure a secure platform for customers and shoppers. The role is remote with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the Information Security field, including operational security monitoring experience
• Experience developing detection rules (YARA, etc.)
• Domain knowledge managing and working with modern security data lake/warehouse platforms as well as data pipelines (Kafka, Flink)
• Experience with AWS or GCP environments
• Experience developing tools and automation using common DevOps toolsets and programming languages
• Experience working in or with SRE or detection engineering and response teams
• Exceptional analytical and investigative abilities with hands-on experience
• Excellent communication skills - ability to serve as a security advocate and evangelist

Responsibilities

• Develop and run cloud-native data pipelines to gather security telemetry data from cloud production systems at scale
• Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure our platform and customers have support when they need it the most
• Implement tools and frameworks to detect threats across Instacart environments
• Contribute to improving processes, procedures, and technologies used for detection and response

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Python scripting experience
• 3+ years of full-time experience in data infrastructure ideally within the information security field

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants