Product Security Engineer (University Grad)

Meta; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Product Security team seeks a Product Security Engineer (University Grad) to enhance the security of their products like Instagram and WhatsApp. Responsibilities include conducting security reviews, guiding developers, and building secure frameworks. This role demands a strong technical foundation and a passion for web security to protect billions of users.

Qualifications

• Degree completion required before joining Meta.
• Experience with php, javascript, python is essential.
• Participation in CTF competitions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews of Meta's products.
• Guide developers to prevent security vulnerabilities.
• Build automation for security analysis frameworks.

Skills

Finding vulnerabilities

Secure code development

Exploiting web security vulnerabilities

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Meta's Product Security team is seeking a passionate hacker who derives purpose in life by revealing potential weaknesses and then crafting creative solutions to eliminate those weaknesses. Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of over three billion people. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the web security expertise necessary to make confident product decisions. Come help us make life hard for the bad guys.

Product Security Engineer (University Grad) Responsibilities

• Security Reviews: perform manual design and implementation reviews of products and services that make up the Meta ecosystem, like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Portal, and more
• Developer Guidance: provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities
• Automated Analysis and Secure Frameworks: build automation (static and dynamic analysis) and frameworks with software engineers that enable Meta to scale consistently across all of our products
• Research, develop, and apply mitigations to products so that vulnerabilities cannot be turned into exploits

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• Experience finding vulnerabilities in php, javascript, python
• Knowledge of secure code development
• Experience with exploiting common web security vulnerabilities (e.g. SQLi, XSS, permission bypass vulnerabilities)

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of participation in capture the flag (CTF) competitions
• Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)

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.

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