Senior Data Risk & Compliance Engineer — Real-Time ML

EngineersOfAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer to lead production-grade data engineering and probabilistic modeling within the GRC program. You will design automated signal ingestion pipelines and develop models that quantify security risk, guiding remediation decisions at scale.

You will build dashboards and present risk metrics to security, engineering, and executive teams, translating complex model outputs into actionable insights for strategic investments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering and production-grade Python/SQL.
• 3+ years building machine learning or probabilistic models in production.
• Experience building real-time data pipelines and batch processing at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build automated signal ingestion pipelines that pull data from security tooling and transform findings into actionable risk intelligence.
• Develop probabilistic risk models to express security exposure as distributions and connect outputs to investment decisions and board reporting.
• Identify choke points across the attack surface and prioritize high-impact remediation paths.
• Build dashboards and data-driven insights to cascade risk visibility to security, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
• Support risk quantification efforts that translate security exposure into financial terms for leadership.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

Presto

SparkSQL

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer to lead production-grade data engineering and probabilistic modeling within the GRC program. You will design automated signal ingestion pipelines and develop models that quantify security risk, guiding remediation decisions at scale.

You will build dashboards and present risk metrics to security, engineering, and executive teams, translating complex model outputs into actionable insights for strategic investments.