Instacart

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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 -The Senior Corporate Security Engineer will help shape and safeguard Instacart’s corporate security, protecting internal systems and sensitive data. You’ll secure internal tools and identity/access management, and proactively detect and mitigate risks across the corporate environment. Working with IT, engineering, and legal, you’ll drive the strategy and implementation of security tools, frameworks, and processes that strengthen our internal security posture. Our mission is to operate the world’s most trusted and secure grocery delivery platform. We work across every layer of our infrastructure to deploy trustworthy systems and protect our customers’, shoppers’, and partners’ data. About the Team - Corporate Security ensures Instacart’s internal networks, corporate assets, and employee workflows are secure, scalable, and resilient. We build proactive, practical security solutions that protect the company while enabling speed and operational efficiency. You will partner closely across the business to design and deliver end-to-end security solutions: Infrastructure Engineering: Embed corporate security controls into engineering workflows by default. Corporate Engineering (IT): Prioritize and implement security improvements with minimal impact on employee velocity. Subsidiaries: Help establish and maintain best-in-class security within their corporate environments. About the Job Design, deploy, and automate controls that deliver best-in-class security across our corporate environment. Be a security partner for our IT-Corporate Engineering team. Uplevel their security practices, co-own roadmaps, and ensure security is embedded without slowing velocity. Own and manage Instacart’s corporate security roadmap, and work with our detection and response team to ensure controls are monitored. Develop and operationalize our vulnerability management program for our corporate network and assets. About You Minimum Qualifications 7+ years in Information Security with hands-on corporate security experience, including operational monitoring with EDR/XDR and endpoint telemetry (e.g., osquery, CrowdStrike). Strong background in corporate security for Zero Trust environments: Okta (SSO/MFA, risk-based policies), Google Workspace administration, BeyondCorp-style device/context-aware access, email security, and DLP. Proficiency building tools and automation using common DevOps/SRE stacks (e.g., Python or Go; APIs/Webhooks; Terraform or Ansible; CI/CD). Experience with SIEM/SOAR and log pipelines; ability to define detections, alerts, and runbooks in partnership with Detection and Response. Experience working with SRE and/or Detection and Response teams. Excellent communication skills; proven ability to advocate for security, influence priorities, and drive cross-functional initiatives to completion. #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 $195,000—$217,000 USD WA $187,000—$208,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $180,000—$200,000 USD All other states $162,000—$180,000 USD