Director, AI-Driven Identity & Access Security

Meta; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Central Security team seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity, authentication, and access management across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems. You will guide a multi-disciplinary, global engineering organization, partner with legal and HR, and drive automated controls to reduce access-related incidents.

You will champion secure-by-design principles for AI/ML lifecycles, help shape security posture across the tech stack, and communicate risk decisions to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on security, identity, or infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure
• Lead the development of a credible, adopted model for agent identity and authorization as AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people across Meta's infrastructure
• Build and scale a distributed, multi-disciplinary organization of software engineers, security engineers, and security operations associates across multiple global sites
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and other teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-articulated tradeoffs between security and operational velocity
• Represent identity and access perspectives to leadership including VPs and C-level executives, advocating for investments and risk decisions
• Drive measurable reduction in access-related security incidents by closing root-cause patterns
• Lead the effort to replace manual access approval and review processes with automated controls at scale
• Define and enforce access policy, supporting Meta's regulatory and compliance obligations
• Develop technical controls addressing geographic expansion into higher-threat environments
• Serve as escalation point for urgent and highly confidential company escalations related to identity and access

Skills

Security engineering

Identity management

Infrastructure systems

Data-driven

Cross-functional leadership

Engineering leadership

Job description

Meta’s Central Security team seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity, authentication, and access management across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems. You will guide a multi-disciplinary, global engineering organization, partner with legal and HR, and drive automated controls to reduce access-related incidents.

You will champion secure-by-design principles for AI/ML lifecycles, help shape security posture across the tech stack, and communicate risk decisions to