Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer - Data & ML Pipelines

EngineersOfAI; Canada; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer to help build an automated, engineering‑grade risk program across security and risk functions. You’ll develop production‑level code, ingestion pipelines, and probabilistic models to quantify risk for leadership and the board.

The role requires building real‑time risk signals, dashboards, and risk monetization, partnering with security, engineering, and executive teams to drive informed investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering with production-level Python and SQL
• 3+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning or probabilistic models in production
• Experience building data pipelines ingesting real-time or near-real-time data

Responsibilities

• Build automated signal ingestion pipelines pulling real-time data from security tooling
• Develop probabilistic risk models expressing security exposure as probability distributions
• Identify high-leverage remediation paths to maximize security program efficiency
• Build dashboards translating model outputs into language for all stakeholder levels
• Support risk quantification efforts tying outputs to investment decisions and board reporting

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

ML models

Tools

PostgreSQL

Presto

SparkSQL

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer to help build an automated, engineering‑grade risk program across security and risk functions. You’ll develop production‑level code, ingestion pipelines, and probabilistic models to quantify risk for leadership and the board.

The role requires building real‑time risk signals, dashboards, and risk monetization, partnering with security, engineering, and executive teams to drive informed investment decisions.