Senior Level Cyber Officer Jobs
Senior level cyber officer jobs put experienced professionals in charge of cyber strategy, program ownership, and the security operations or teams that carry out critical missions. Hiring concentrates across Technology & Software, Investment & Asset Management, and Healthcare & Medical Services, with 46% remote or hybrid availability, and employers like Deloitte, Northrop Grumman, and Cls US Services hiring at this level now.
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Impact
At Shipt, we are transforming the shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Our shoppers handpick everything from fresh groceries to household essentials, delivering them to doors in as little as one hour. The Shipt Cyber Fraud team is responsible for ensuring that as we grow, every customer, shopper, and retailer interaction is seamless and safe. As a Staff Engineer within our Cyber Fraud team, you will not just respond to threats, you will strategically champion the technical health of our anti-fraud product, architecting a landscape where innovation and security coexist, providing the best possible user experience.We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer to be the technical anchor of Shipt’s fraud prevention ecosystem. You will not only lead engineering efforts to design and implement complex, scalable risk assessment systems required to react quickly to protect Shipt’s bottom line, but also act as a strategic lead with cross-functional teams to ensure that fraud and abuse are systematically prevented. This role will directly contribute to the mission of protecting customer, shopper, and business data from exfiltration by unauthorized parties, and prevent material financial losses to ensure that user confidence remains high while our business grows.
What You’ll Need to Be Successful
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in backend engineering
- Expert in backend languages such as Golang, Javascript, or Python
- Proven expertise in API development and integrations
- Extensive experience with version control tools such as Git and GitHub
- Strong skills in data storage, retrieval, and analysis using PostgreSQL and Snowflake
- Proven experience in working with 3rd party vendor integrations
- Experience with messaging frameworks such as Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS
- Experience with observability tools such as DataDog, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Expert at identifying and optimizing inefficient code, database queries, and network requests
How You Can Make An Impact
- Architect, build, and deploy mission critical APIs and services while ensuring high code quality, security, and scalability
- Create low latency integrations that detect and address realtime fraud and abuse across Shipt’s ecosystem
- Work closely with Data Science partners to design and expand upon comprehensive in-house rules engines and ML models
- Generate high-quality proposals for implementation based on thorough research and discovery efforts
- Implement and utilize logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure service performance and reliability
- Create and maintain high fidelity artifacts, such as documentation, diagrams, and data models
- Act as primary subject matter expert for the Cyber Fraud team, collaborating with cross-functional teams in areas like Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Operations across the Fraud organization
- Lead architectural design reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior and senior engineers
- Participate in on-call duties, including responding to incidents, debugging issues, and supporting ad-hoc fraud consultation requests
- Proactively identify and analyze fraud vectors, proposing sophisticated engineering solutions to address them with minimal negative impact to Shipt’s end users
- Play an active role in AI acceleration and adoption within and across teams
Skills & Education
This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.
Agile Methodology, Apache Kafka, API Development, Back-End Development, Go Programming LanguageBachelor's Degree or equivalent experience | Required
Pay Range:
Please note that the pay range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.
Work Arrangement
To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:
Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.
Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.
About Shipt
Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.
At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day. Learn More.
Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need a reasonable accommodation. If you need assistance filling out a job application, please complete this form.
For technical interviews, Shipt uses an online coding platform. In the event you may need a reasonable accommodation to use the online coding platform, please connect with your recruiter.
Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more. Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave. Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.
Impact
At Shipt, we are transforming the shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Our shoppers handpick everything from fresh groceries to household essentials, delivering them to doors in as little as one hour. The Shipt Cyber Fraud team is responsible for ensuring that as we grow, every customer, shopper, and retailer interaction is seamless and safe. As a Staff Engineer within our Cyber Fraud team, you will not just respond to threats, you will strategically champion the technical health of our anti-fraud product, architecting a landscape where innovation and security coexist, providing the best possible user experience.We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer to be the technical anchor of Shipt’s fraud prevention ecosystem. You will not only lead engineering efforts to design and implement complex, scalable risk assessment systems required to react quickly to protect Shipt’s bottom line, but also act as a strategic lead with cross-functional teams to ensure that fraud and abuse are systematically prevented. This role will directly contribute to the mission of protecting customer, shopper, and business data from exfiltration by unauthorized parties, and prevent material financial losses to ensure that user confidence remains high while our business grows.
What You’ll Need to Be Successful
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in backend engineering
- Expert in backend languages such as Golang, Javascript, or Python
- Proven expertise in API development and integrations
- Extensive experience with version control tools such as Git and GitHub
- Strong skills in data storage, retrieval, and analysis using PostgreSQL and Snowflake
- Proven experience in working with 3rd party vendor integrations
- Experience with messaging frameworks such as Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS
- Experience with observability tools such as DataDog, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Expert at identifying and optimizing inefficient code, database queries, and network requests
How You Can Make An Impact
- Architect, build, and deploy mission critical APIs and services while ensuring high code quality, security, and scalability
- Create low latency integrations that detect and address realtime fraud and abuse across Shipt’s ecosystem
- Work closely with Data Science partners to design and expand upon comprehensive in-house rules engines and ML models
- Generate high-quality proposals for implementation based on thorough research and discovery efforts
- Implement and utilize logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure service performance and reliability
- Create and maintain high fidelity artifacts, such as documentation, diagrams, and data models
- Act as primary subject matter expert for the Cyber Fraud team, collaborating with cross-functional teams in areas like Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Operations across the Fraud organization
- Lead architectural design reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior and senior engineers
- Participate in on-call duties, including responding to incidents, debugging issues, and supporting ad-hoc fraud consultation requests
- Proactively identify and analyze fraud vectors, proposing sophisticated engineering solutions to address them with minimal negative impact to Shipt’s end users
- Play an active role in AI acceleration and adoption within and across teams
Skills & Education
This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.
Agile Methodology, Apache Kafka, API Development, Back-End Development, Go Programming LanguageBachelor's Degree or equivalent experience | Required
Pay Range:
Please note that the pay range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.
Work Arrangement
To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:
Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.
Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.
About Shipt
Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.
At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day. Learn More.
Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need a reasonable accommodation. If you need assistance filling out a job application, please complete this form.
For technical interviews, Shipt uses an online coding platform. In the event you may need a reasonable accommodation to use the online coding platform, please connect with your recruiter.
Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more. Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave. Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.
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Senior Level Cyber Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level cyber officer job?
Employers at this level look for demonstrated ownership of cyber programs, not just technical execution. Candidates who stand out bring experience leading incident response or security architecture decisions, have held cross-functional accountability, and can show they have mentored junior staff or shaped team direction. Certifications like CISSP or a clearance relevant to the sector consistently strengthen applications for senior cyber officer roles.
Which companies hire senior level cyber officers?
Companies hiring senior level cyber officers right now include Deloitte, Northrop Grumman, and Cls US Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level tends to come from defense contractors, federal agencies, and large enterprises that run mature security programs requiring experienced leadership.
Are there remote senior level cyber officer jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and security classification requirements. About 46% of senior level cyber officer openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with fully remote roles more common in commercial sectors than in defense or government work where on-site presence or cleared facility access is required.
What makes a cyber officer role senior level?
Senior level cyber officer roles are defined by scope of ownership and decision-making authority. Where mid-level roles execute within defined programs, senior roles set direction, own outcomes, and are accountable for how security strategy is built and sustained. They typically involve leading other security professionals, interfacing with executive stakeholders, and designing frameworks rather than operating within them.
Which industries hire the most senior level cyber officers?
Senior Level cyber officer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Investment & Asset Management, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they operate under strict regulatory requirements, manage sensitive data or critical infrastructure, and need experienced professionals who can own security posture rather than simply maintain it.