Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer - Data at Instacart · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

The Orders Platform team sits at the center of Instacart’s commerce stack, which means this role requires deep technical judgment, strong cross-functional partnership, and a willingness to solve complex problems across many domains. If you are a big-picture thinker who enjoys owning high-impact systems, leading multi-team initiatives, and building durable platforms that help teams move faster and more safely, this role is for you.
Instacart is a collaborative, fast-paced environment where engineers are encouraged to act like owners, communicate transparently, and build solutions that help the broader ecosystem succeed. You will partner with teams across Engineering, Product, Data, Infrastructure, and business functions to deliver platform capabilities that can scale with Instacart’s evolving commerce experiences.
Lead multi-team initiatives that improve the reliability, scalability, and correctness of the Orders platform across checkout, payments, fulfillment, post-order workflows, and partner integrations.
Define and drive the technical strategy for the order lifecycle, including modeling and evolving order state machines, guarantees, and service contracts to support new products, fulfillment models, and surfaces while maintaining strong service expectations and data integrity.
Architect and evolve event-driven, idempotent workflows for core order flows such as creation, updates, cancellations, substitutions, payments, and refunds, ensuring clear invariants, observability, and auditable histories across services.
Partner closely with engineering and cross-functional teams across Payments, Fulfillment, Catalog, Ads, Fraud and Identity, Data, and Infrastructure to deliver durable platform capabilities that other product teams can build on safely and quickly.
Modernize and extend the platform through capabilities such as improved consistency models, multi-tenant abstractions, stronger failure isolation, and secure integrations that increase flexibility and operability at scale.
Design platform capabilities that support agentic commerce, including policy-driven automated workflows, secure APIs, and well-defined tools that make Orders safely addressable by agents and AI systems.
Raise the technical bar by leading design reviews, coaching engineers, contributing hands-on to critical code paths, and helping teams make sound technical decisions through design spikes, launches, and cross-team efforts.

Qualification

Direct experience with trust and safetyExperience defining vendor SLAsOffers may vary based on many factors

Required

7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an engineering leadership, engineering management, or technical lead role.
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or real-time decisioning platforms in production, such as identity, fraud, risk, payments, or other safety-critical domains.
Strong technical background in backend or platform engineering, with experience in languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
Hands-on familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP and modern datastores such as Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar technologies.
Experience managing or leading engineers through hiring, performance management, feedback, coaching, and career development.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners such as Product, Security, Data Science or Machine Learning, Operations, Legal, or Compliance to define requirements, make tradeoffs, and deliver measurable business impact.
Experience working in an AI-forward engineering environment, such as AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered services, with the ability to define appropriate boundaries between human and automated decision-making.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical details into business impact, operational risk, and clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Preferred

Direct experience with trust and safety, identity verification, fraud, risk, or payments systems in a high-scale marketplace or consumer platform.
Experience designing systems that handle sensitive identity, account, or payments data with strong privacy, security, auditability, and compliance requirements.
Experience integrating external identity, risk, or verification vendors, such as device fingerprinting services, or document verification platforms.
Experience defining vendor SLAs, managing vendor performance, or executing migrations and vendor swaps for business-critical systems.
Familiarity with experimentation and analytics tooling used to measure impact on fraud, account security, false-positive rates, customer friction, or operational efficiency.
Experience applying AI or LLM-based approaches to engineering, detection, identity graph signals, unified risk scoring, or fraud and identity decisioning workflows.
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

Senior Risk & Compliance Engineer - Data

Responsibilities

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Instacart

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