Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
260K-289K Annually
eCommerce • Food • Software
Instacart is the leading grocery technology company in North America
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.


About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer to join our fast moving team. We work on a range of interesting and challenging problems, from supporting thousands of concurrent shoppers and processing millions of data points in real time, to determining the best route for deliveries and predicting store inventory levels.



About the Team

At Instacart, we hold ourselves greatly responsible for protecting our customers', shoppers', partners' data and provide a secure platform to shop. As one of the key members of the security team, you will have a tremendous impact on Instacart's security posture and engineering culture. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a large sense of ownership, grow extraordinarily in their career, develop cross-functional technical and soft skills, in not just security, but engineering overall. Our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time, all of the time.



About the Job

  • Drive and improve the security posture of our cloud infrastructure AWS & GCP environment.
  • Build and deploy tools and services to automate enforcement of security baseline across our cloud infrastructure, including:
    • IAM and configuration management
    • Container and system security and vulnerability management
    • PKI and secret management
  • Partner with our incident response team to design and implement detection and response capability on our cloud Infrastructure
  • Work closely with IT to harden and secure our corporate and endpoint infrastructure
  • Provide advisory and consulting service to engineering, product and IT teams to ensure their services are built with security in mind
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and help drive critical infrastructure incidents to resolution


About You

Minimum Qualifications: 

  • Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure Security (AWS is a MUST with GCP or Azure strongly desirable)
  • Strong experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Go, Shell and regularly commit code or contribute to open source projects
  • Experience working with containerized environments and related orchestrations techniques (Docker and/or Kubernetes)
  • Experience scaling infrastructure with code or deploying Terraform
  • Functional understanding of distributed systems and service oriented architectures
  • Strong system and networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, kernel operations, memory and file system management, particularly on linux platforms
  • Enjoy working collaboratively with internal customers and stakeholders and can navigate security/productivity trade-offs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
  • Knowledge of common attack patterns/TTP as well as hardening strategies for ONE or more of the following systems:
    • Windows/AzureAD
    • Linux
    • OSX

#LI-Remote


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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ
$260,000$289,000 USD
WA
$249,000$277,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$239,000$266,000 USD
All other states
$216,000$240,000 USD

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
3,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule.

Why Work With Us

We provide the ingredients & inspiration for you to shape the career that nourishes you. Our team is building innovative solutions to never-before-solved business, technical, logistical, service, and creative challenges. If you're ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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