Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

Instacart

Senior Engineering Manager leading Privacy Engineering team to deliver privacy-by-design solutions at Instacart. Overseeing privacy capabilities, policies, and team development for security and data protection.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $221,000 - $279,000 per yearWebsite

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Hard Skills

privacy engineeringdistributed systemscloud technologyGDPRCCPACPRAprivacy by designdata protection policiesmetrics developmentrisk assessment

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementcommunicationperformance managementcustomer negotiationdecision makingrecruitmentupskillingscaling teamscollaboration

Industry Keywords

privacy visionprivacy-centric decisionsbusiness risk mitigationoperational objectivesconsumer productsecurity measuresdata privacyprivacy metricssenior leadership reportingmultidisciplinary team

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development
Bonuses
Stock options
Equipment allowances
Wellness programs