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[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

Remote Full-time Live

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry and is looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join their Privacy Engineering team within Security Engineering. This role involves leading the team to deliver privacy-by-design solutions, managing privacy capabilities, and advising on privacy vision while ensuring products are developed with security and privacy in mind.

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

Skills

  • 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

Benefits

  • Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
  • This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
  • Instacart is a Flex First team
  • 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.

Company Overview

  • Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.instacart.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Instacart has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 23 in 2026, 152 in 2025, 173 in 2024, 109 in 2023, 159 in 2022, 170 in 2021, 59 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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