Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

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Overview

We're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our growing Privacy Engineering team within Security Engineering. The Senior Engineering Manager of Privacy Engineering will be primarily responsible for the continued evolution of our privacy capabilities, including access request and deletion processing, annotating and securing sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), and effectively managing third party marketing trackers. You will lead the Privacy Engineering team focused on delivering secure privacy features through building controls & defenses, which is also starting to expand into a Data Security Platform team. Your commitment to applying secure privacy capabilities to business and technology challenges in clean & innovative ways will make you a trusted advisor to your partners and their teams. You will own projects and influence our direction and impact the business in tangible, visible ways, always having a seat at the table.

The Privacy Engineering team is a platform team in the Security Engineering organization that believes it should be easy to build products that respect our user’s privacy. To do this, we manage our internal data privacy architecture that includes systems to annotate, find, and delete data across production and offline data storage systems. Additionally, we build the front end components that product teams across Instacart use to give our users direct access to these internal systems.

The Privacy team is a member of our core Privacy working group, that includes our Legal team, Compliance team, Operations teams, and privacy partners for each of our main product pillars. Additionally we work closely with our Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Security engineering teams to ensure privacy controls are in place effectively across all levels of our stack.

About the Job

• Grow, develop, manage, and lead a multidisciplinary team of seasoned software engineers, system engineers, and security engineers across all aspects of Security and Privacy.
• Advise executive and senior technical & business leadership on Instacart’s privacy and security 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 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.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience in software engineering, privacy engineering or security engineering delivering holistic Privacy Engineering solutions.
• 4+ years leadership experience of directly managing an org of 5+ senior level individual contributors (or managers) with the ability to recruit/hire, upskill, lead, and scale teams.
• Strong distributed systems and cloud technology knowledge OR application security technology knowledge OR infrastructure security technology knowledge.
• Ability to assess cost/benefit trade-offs of privacy and security initiatives in the context of overall business risk mitigation, and Instacart’s operational objectives. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related science/engineering fields (Mathematics, Engineering, etc.)
• An inspirational and effective leader in a fast-paced environment with the ability to be highly adaptive.
• 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.

#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.