# Senior Detection Engineer II at Instacart

- Company: Instacart
- What the company does: Order same-day delivery or pickup from more than 300 retailers and grocers. Download the Instacart app or start shopping online now with Instacart to get groceries, alcohol, home essentials, and more delivered to you in as fast as 1 hour or select curbside... Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://www.instacart.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://instacart.careers/job/?gh_jid=8154300
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instacart-senior-detection-engineer-ii/

## About the role

Instacarts Detection Engineering team sits at the core of our Security organization, building and operating the systems that identify, surface, and respond to threats across one of North America's largest grocery technology platforms. We own the full detection lifecycle, from telemetry collection and signal design to automated response, across a complex, cloud-native environment spanning endpoint, cloud, container, and SaaS.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of experience in a detection engineering, incident response, or offensive security role
- Experience with 1 or more public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Deep understanding of attacker TTPs across modern zero trust environments, including identity compromise, token theft, and abuse of trust boundaries
- Proficient understanding of macOS internals and telemetry available to identify macOS specific threats
- Experience implementing detection-as-code workflows including version control, peer review processes, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment pipelines
- Basic proficiency with Python, Golang, or other programming languages

Tags: Security