Engineering Manager, Fraud & Identity Platform

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Instacart's Fraud, Appeasement & Identity team protects the marketplace and everyone who depends on it: customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. Within this team, the Identity Platform group builds and operates the core services that verify who our users are, secure their accounts, and provide trustworthy identity and eligibility signals to systems across Instacart.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Risk Platform team. In this role, you'll own a critical part of Instacart's trust infrastructure across authentication, account lifecycle, identity verification, and graph and relationship modeling, while managing and developing a team of backend and platform engineers. Your work will directly influence fraud losses, account security, marketplace integrity, and Instacart's ability to scale responsibly while meeting evolving regulatory and privacy expectations.

This is a highly cross-functional, fast-moving role for a leader who enjoys building reliable platform systems, coaching strong engineering teams, and solving adversarial problems at scale. You'll partner closely with Product, Security, Fraud, Data Science, Legal, Operations, and external vendors to help shape the future of identity and risk at Instacart.

• Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for Identity and Fraud & Risk platforms — spanning authentication, account lifecycle, identity verification and eligibility, identity graph signals, and fraud detection and prevention - in close partnership with Product, Security, and Fraud leadership.

• Manage and develop a team of software engineers by setting clear goals, providing coaching and feedback, supporting career growth, and building an inclusive team culture grounded in accountability and high standards.

• Ensure the team delivers reliable, high-quality systems by defining service health goals, improving on-call practices, leading post-incident learning, and driving long-term remediation for critical platform services.

• Partner with Product, Data Science and Machine Learning, Security, Fraud Operations, Legal, and external identity vendors to design and ship business-critical initiatives such as account takeover prevention, stronger identity verification, eligibility workflows, and compliance-related capabilities.

• Collaborate with senior individual contributors to