Security Engineer

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.Security Engineer Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents.
• Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently propose logging, detection and prevention controls.
• Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment.
• Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas.
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our ability to investigate.
• Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution.
• Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage.
• Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a security engineering-related occupation
• Experience must include 3 years in the following:
• 1. Building complex automations and integrations using SOAR platforms
• 2. Designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats
• 3. Analyzing network and host-based security events
• 4. Utilizing networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• 5. Operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• 6. Coding/scripting experience in Python or similar interpreted language

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. About Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$195,413/year to $200,200/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.

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