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Security Engineer, Investigations - i3E
MetaUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jul 2025
💰 $251,000/yr($177,000/yr – $251,000/yr)
About the role
The Integrity Investigations, Intelligence, and Events (i3E) teams at Meta are dedicated to protecting the users of our family of applications (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus) from a multitude of threats to include state-sponsored influence campaigns. We are seeking a security engineer to investigate sophisticated threat actors, advance investigative methods, automate and mature team processes through tooling, drive innovative approaches to protecting people from offline harm, and lead across a group of cross-functional problems to find scaled solutions to counter the risk of coordinated adversarial threats. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging, complicated, and high-visibility risks the company is facing.Security Engineer, Investigations - i3E Responsibilities
- Engage cross-functionally with other teams to develop shared taxonomy, implement effective strategies to prevent and disrupt abuse at scale and represent i3E across the problem space
- Assist in the development of the team’s long-term strategy to improve tactics, discoverability of threats, and enhance investigative efficiencies
- Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, and third party private intelligence
- Investigate complex cases to understand how abuse is occurring and implement enforcement strategies to mitigate and/or detect harm
- Identify areas to automate investigative tooling and tradecraft
- work through others to ensure successful implementation beyond the immediate team
- Analyze and interpret large datasets to advance investigations, quantify trends or support findings
- Address sensitive content issues, including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other objectionable material
- This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other potential objectionable material, i.e. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing
- 8+ years of work experience in cyber security, private sector security investigations and intelligence, government, and/or intelligence
- 5+ years of experience working with Python, PHP or similar scripting languages
- 2+ years experience as technical lead or team lead in an adversarial and/or investigative space with experience driving team strategic direction
- Proven experience conducting large scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools such as Maltego, Palantir, Tableau, etc
- Track record of proficient communication and presenting technical findings
- Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats
- Experience prioritizing and executing with minimal direction or oversight
- Experience in fast-paced environments where priorities shift and change
- A combination of investigative skills and engineering skills
- Experience working with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones
- Experience working or managing projects that have enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross functional stakeholders
- Subject matter expertise with nation state actors, state-sponsored threat actor campaigns, influence operations, cyber-espionage, or ideologically motivated threat groups
- Familiarity with sophisticated cyber threats
- BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field
- Experience leading and empowering teammates
- Experience contributing to the security community (open source, academic research, industry research, blogs, presentations, etc.)
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