# Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $156k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Postgres, presto, sparksql, Machine Learning, bayesian models, Data Pipelines, Data Modeling, risk detection, threat intelligence, fair, nist csf, SOC 2
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer building automated signal ingestion pipelines, probabilistic risk models, and data-driven dashboards to quantify security exposure and inform executive decisions at Instacart. Requires 5+ years data engineering with Python/SQL and 3+ years deploying ML/probabilistic models in production.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with demonstrated ability to write production-level code in Python and SQL (PostgreSQL, Presto, or SparkSQL).
- 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- 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.

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