Senior Security Engineer II

Instacart Instacart · Consumer · United States · Remote · Security

Senior Security Engineer II at Instacart, focusing on securing cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and product surfaces. Responsibilities include identifying and analyzing business-critical risks, defining remediation strategies, developing scalable secure systems, and mentoring engineers. Requires 5+ years in Security Engineering or Offensive Security, code/design review experience, knowledge of security bug classes, SaaS architectures, and variant/root cause analysis. Preferred qualifications include a track record of security research or OSS contributions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify business-critical risks present within Instacart’s product and infrastructure.
  2. Analyze the risks and define remediation strategies with actionable roadmaps.
  3. Develop scalable systems to enable and encourage secure engineering patterns.
  4. Own and drive systemic improvements across engineering and other functions.
  5. Coach and mentor other engineers within the organization.

Skills

Required

  • Security Engineering
  • Offensive Security
  • code reviews
  • design reviews
  • security bug classes
  • remediation techniques
  • SaaS architectures
  • threat models
  • Variant Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Secure Frameworks

Nice to have

  • security research
  • competitive hacking
  • OSS contributions

What the JD emphasized

  • security research
  • competitive hacking
  • OSS contributions