[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security @Instacart

Role Description

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)
• 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
• 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, which includes:

• Legal team
• Compliance team
• Operations teams
• 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, ensuring 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 senior leadership on the top privacy and security risks and health of their respective organizations.

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 organization of 5+ senior level individual contributors.
• Proven ability to recruit/hire, upskill, lead, and scale teams.
• 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

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First remote work policy.
• Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.