Detection & Response Security Engineer, Intern (Summer 2027)

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking Security Engineer Interns to work with cross-functional teams on threat modeling, detection engineering, and threat hunting. You will identify critical assets, assess top risks, and develop detection and response automation across production and corporate systems.

You’ll collaborate with Security Analysts, Software Engineers, and Offensive Security Engineers to implement scalable security solutions, leveraging large datasets and hyper-scale data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Pursuing BS or MS in CS or related field.
• Experience analyzing network and host-based security events.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and related networking protocols.
• Strong OS knowledge (Windows, MacOS, Linux).
• Coding/scripting in one or more languages.
• Experience with attacker TTPs.
• Must have work authorization for country of employment.
• Experience in Detection & Response or similar security engineering role.
• Experience designing systems for external/insider threat responses.
• Experience building automations/integrations using SOIR platforms.
• Background in security-focused software engineering and large data pipelines.
• Experience in threat hunting using intelligence data.
• Familiarity with threat modeling frameworks (Diamond Model / MITRE ATT&CK).
• Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting notebooks.
• Broad security domain knowledge with focus in one or more areas (logs/events processing, incident management, digital forensics, offensive security testing, detection/response tooling).
• Intent to return to full-time degree program after internship.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical assets, assess top risks, and evaluate/detect internal and external attacks against Meta systems.
• Develop detection and response automation across production and corporate systems.
• Collaborate with Security Analysts, Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers on large-scale data pipelines.
• Generate detection ideas and implementations leveraging large datasets and scalable pipelines.

Skills

Threat modeling

Detection engineering

Threat hunting

Anomaly detection

Networking TCP/IP

OS knowledge (Windows/MacOS/Linux)

Scripting/coding

Attack techniques (TTPs)

Security engineering

Automations & integrations

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SOIR platforms

Job description

Meta Security is looking for Security Engineer Interns with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You’ll work alongside Security Analysts, Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate and detect potential internal and external attacks against Meta systems. You will be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You’ll generate detection ideas and implementations utilizing some of the world’s largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

This internship, starting Summer 2027, offers a wealth of challenging and technically stimulating security problems. We encourage self-starters and passionate security enthusiasts to apply and contribute to our mission.

Teams You May Join:

• Surface Coverage – Detection Engineering
• Insider Trust – Detection Engineering
• Must be in the process of obtaining a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
• Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
• Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
• Experience designing systems used for responding to external and/or insider threats
• Experience building automations and integrations using SOIR platforms
• Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive security
• Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigates suspicious behavior across networks and systems
• Experience with anomaly detection applicable to the insider threat detection space
• Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and skills to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures
• Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting to spot suspicious activities and identify potential risks, and experience with building notebooks to automate such hunts
• Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling development
• Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship