Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer (Data)

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  • 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
  • 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
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