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Security Engineer
MetaNew York City, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Oct 2025
💰 $342,000/yr($264,000/yr – $342,000/yr)
About the role
Cross-Meta Security’s mission is to protect the company, our community, and their data while empowering safe innovation. To achieve this, we are building a small team of Senior Individual Contributors (ICs) who can solve security-related technical problems across the company in collaboration with various Meta product groups and pillars.Security Engineer Responsibilities
$२,६४,०००/year to $३,४२,०००/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
Equal Employment Opportunity Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice here. Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, fill out the Accommodations request form.
- Lead cross-organizational technical teams to solve challenging cross-domain security problems.
- Bring together engineering teams that work in adjacent areas to build shared context and tackle bigger problems than they can solve individually.
- Operate with ownership and accountability for one or more security risks at Meta and drive and influence people to do the right things to comprehensively address those risks while enabling the company to move fast.
- Disambiguate and decompose problems and solutions and create clarity for others.
- Provide technical guidance and collaborate with cross-functional partners to define projects goals and milestones.
- Bolster engineering excellence in everything you do.
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
- 15+ years of experience managing security risk and navigating the tradeoff between security and friction in a large organization
- 15+ years of experience in driving large cross-company engineering and Security initiatives
- Experience with system design, threat modeling and risk assessment
- Experience building engineered controls and guardrails to manage risks
- Application of security principles such as least privilege, defense in depth, segmentation
- Knowledge of current threat tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Experience in distributed systems, access control, encryption, intrusion detection
- Effective communication that creates clarity and simplicity for others
$२,६४,०००/year to $३,४२,०००/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
Equal Employment Opportunity Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice here. Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, fill out the Accommodations request form.
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