# Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $221k – $279k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Privacy Engineering, GDPR, CCPA, Cpra, Distributed Systems, Cloud Technology, Privacy By Design, Data Lifecycle Management, Pii Annotation, Access Request Processing
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Lead and scale a Privacy Engineering team responsible for privacy-by-design solutions, data lifecycle management, and compliance tooling across Instacart's platform. Requires 12+ years privacy engineering experience and 5+ years managing senior engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Grow, develop, manage, and lead a multidisciplinary team of seasoned software and system engineers across all aspects of Privacy.
- Advise executive and senior technical & business leadership on Instacart’s privacy vision through regular and consistent written and in-person communication.
- Lead Privacy Engineering partnership with infrastructure and application teams, to ensure all products are developed and delivered with security and privacy in mind through Privacy by Design.
- Implement policies and procedures that protect our customer and partner data.
- Develop and provide metrics and reports to the senior leadership of the top privacy and security risks and health of their respective organizations.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of work experience in privacy engineering delivering holistic Privacy Engineering solutions and building privacy as part of the product.
- 5+ years leadership experience of directly managing an org of 5+ senior level individual contributors.
- Proven ability to recruit/hire, upskill, lead, and scale teams. Should be able to handle performance management, customer negotiations and drive privacy centric decisions with other partners.
- Strong distributed systems and cloud technology knowledge.
- Ability to assess cost/benefit trade-offs of privacy initiatives in the context of overall business risk mitigation, and Instacart’s operational objectives.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related science/engineering fields (Mathematics, Engineering, etc.).
- Working experience with policies such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, etc.
- Real-world experience implementing privacy/trust/security measures which have shipped in a consumer product and/or service.

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