Senior Product Security Engineer II

📋 Job Overview

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. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.

🏢 About Instacart

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.

🎯 The Role

About the Role - You will be a key member of the Security Engineering team that is tasked with researching, developing, and conducting offensive security techniques for a suite of Instacart products. We are looking for a breaker mindset security engineer who can scale out the discovery of security defects and anti-patterns to mature the security posture of Instacart product lines.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and conduct offensive security operations / engagements for product and internal tools across Instacart.
• Deploy and operationalize a variety of open-source and commercially available security tools that can scale out and be maintained long term.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering and product, to integrate security testing into their SDLC cycle.
• Share knowledge and mentor other team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Penetration Testing, demonstrating a strong grasp of product security concepts and principles.
• Experience in mobile app penetration testing, AI security testing or cloud penetration testing.
• Experience with threat modeling, security assessments, product security concepts, and security architecture reviews.
• An ability to make data-driven decisions & prioritize initiatives that improve key security metrics.
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high-quality and pragmatic solutions.
• Solid self-management and organizational skills.
• In-depth knowledge of the best remediation techniques for different application vulnerabilities and the ability to explain them to product teams.
• An ability to create written work products and detailed technical documents to work effectively with cross-functional teams and drive alignment on security objectives and plans.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related work experience.
• Bug bounty research experience.

🎁 Benefits

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. 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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.