Senior Staff Security Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's Security team as a Security Engineer and play a key role in securing our grocery delivery platform. You will deliver and execute a compelling security strategy, evaluate and implement security tools, partner with leaders on company-wide initiatives, and analyze business requirements to create security deliverables. Maintain knowledge of current security threats and best practices, lead cross-functional projects, and develop secure protocols and frameworks. Provide consultation on security architecture and establish yourself as a trusted advisor. This is a remote position with competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• 15+ years of technical security leadership at top-tier cloud-native companies, including experience with cryptography, security products, threat modeling, security design, infrastructure security, security architecture, PKI, and broader security technologies
• Security Engineering experience within a technology organization, including software development, cloud computing and mobile applications
• Experience with large-scale web applications and backend services, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption
• Experience defining security policy, technology requirements, and security best-practices
• Solid understanding of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations
• Experience implementing SDLC process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment
• Superior communication skills - ability to serve as a security advocate and evangelist
• Demonstrated technical foundation (Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent) with a business-savvy mindset and an innate ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into comprehensive organizational risks for senior leadership
• Strong ties with the broader security community to attract and hire great talent

Responsibilities

• Delivering and executing a compelling security strategy spanning across multiple product teams and acquisitions
• Evaluate, prototype, implement, and support security-focused tools and services
• Partner with senior leaders across Instacart to help deliver company-wide security initiatives
• Oversee the analysis of business requirements and the interpretation into security deliverables
• Maintain strong knowledge of current security threats, mitigations and operational best practices
• Lead cross-functional projects and establishing cutting-edge security development lifecycle practices
• Develop new secure security protocols, frameworks and reference architecture spanning multiple layers
• Provide consultation in security architecture design/review of new products and services
• Establish credibility as a trusted advisor to stakeholders including partners, executives, and peers

Preferred Qualifications

Active contributor to the security community (Security research, CVEs, bug-bounty recognitions, open-source, blogs, publications…)

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants