OverviewInstacart's Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team sits at the intersection of security, data, and business impact - and we're building an automated, engineering-grade risk program that produces real-time risk scoring, quantified exposure models, and ROI-linked investment decisions that reach the CISO, executive leadership, and the board.
We're looking for a Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer to help us get there. This is an engineering role with a data science expertise needed. You'll write production-level code, build signal ingestion pipelines, and develop probabilistic risk models that give our security organization a quantified, confidence-backed view of our risk posture - all in service of protecting Instacart's customers and products at scale.
If you're energized by the challenge of transforming a manual, reactive discipline into a data-driven, automated program - providing value across security, engineering, and executive stakeholders while doing it - this role was built for you.
About the Job- Build automated signal ingestion pipelines that pull real-time data from security tooling - normalizing, enriching, and scoring raw findings into actionable, ranked risk intelligence that drives remediation decisions across the organization
- Develop probabilistic risk models that express security exposure as probability distributions, giving leadership a quantified, confidence-backed view of breach likelihood and expected losses - connecting model outputs directly to investment decisions and board-level reporting
- Identify systemic choke points across the attack surface - high-leverage remediation paths where a single fix eliminates risk at scale - and prioritize them by expected impact to maximize the efficiency of our security program
- Build dashboards and data-driven insights that cascade risk visibility across security, engineering, and executive stakeholders, translating complex model outputs into language that resonates at every level of the organization
- Support risk quantification efforts that express security exposure in financial terms, connecting model outputs to investment decisions and board-level reporting
About YouMinimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with demonstrated ability to write production-level code in Python and SQL (PostgreSQL, Presto, or SparkSQL) - you write production level code for internal tools and infrastructure
- 3+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning or probabilistic models (e.g., Bayesian models) in a production environment
- Experience building data pipelines that ingest real-time or near-real-time data across multiple formats, handling both stream and batch processing at scale
- Experience with data modeling for classification, normalization, and risk or anomaly detection signal development
- Experience developing metrics that inform security and business decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with security risk concepts including threat intelligence enrichment pipelines, EPSS, or CISA KEV
- Familiarity with quantitative risk frameworks such as FAIR
- Exposure to security frameworks such as NIST CSF, SOC 2 as context for what controls the data is measuring
- Demonstrated ability to translate risk model outputs into executive or board-level narratives
- A genuine passion for building systems that protect customers and products, and a track record of operating effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where the program is still being shaped
#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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$153,000-$187,000 CAD
