About the role
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 Instacart'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 You Minimum
