Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

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. 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 in delivering privacy-by-design solutions that provide shared controls, data lifecycle management tooling, and other privacy-enhancing technologies that product teams utilize to embed privacy as a core feature in their products. 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. About the Team 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. 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. About You Minimum Qualifications 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. #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 rea d 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 $265,000 — $279,000 USD WA $254,000 — $268,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $243,000 — $256,000 USD All other states $221,000 — $233,000 USD