Senior Security Engineer, Cloud, AI, Product Security
Senior Security Engineer responsible for identifying infrastructure and product risks, defining remediation roadmaps, and building scalable secure engineering systems. Requires 5+ years in security engineering and strong IaC and code review experience.
Responsibilities
- Identify business-critical risks present within Instacart’s product and infrastructure.
- Analyze the risks and define remediation strategies with actionable roadmaps.
- Develop scalable systems to enable and encourage secure engineering patterns.
- Own and drive systemic improvements across engineering and other functions.
- Coach and mentor other engineers within the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Offensive Security roles.
- 3+ years of experience performing code reviews and design reviews.
- Proficiency in at least one production language (Python, Go, or TypeScript) sufficient to build internal tooling.
- Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
- Knowledge of security bug classes and best practice remediation techniques.
- Understanding of SaaS architectures, common risks, and threat models.
- Experience with Variant Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, or Secure Frameworks.
Nice-to-Haves
- Track record of security research, competitive hacking, or OSS contributions.
- Policy-as-code authoring at organization scope (OPA/Rego, Terraform Sentinel/equivalent) with disciplined test coverage and rollout/grandfathering strategies.
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) at scale — Wiz/Prisma/equivalent, including remediation programs spanning IaC findings and live threat findings (C2, credential abuse), plus running scan infrastructure across CI fleets.
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