Director, AI-Driven Identity & Access Security Engineering

Meta; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in the United States is seeking a Director Software Engineering for Central Security to lead identity, authentication, and access management across our infrastructure. You will guide AI-enabled security programs and build automated controls at scale with cross-functional partners.

You will shape multi-site teams, advocate for strategic investments to reduce access-related incidents, and ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining speed of innovation across Meta's technology stack.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with a focus on security, identity, or infrastructure systems.
• 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers.
• Track record of building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting, developing, and managing the performance of engineers and engineering leaders.
• Experience forming cross-functional partnerships across product, design, and data science to deliver large-scale engineering outcomes.
• Experience reasoning rigorously with metrics and data, with understanding of statistical uncertainty, bias, and ecosystem trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure, spanning production environments (Linux), corporate environments (Windows, Active Directory), third-party SaaS, and public cloud.
• 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 (CTO, CISO), advocating for appropriate investments and risk decisions.
• Drive measurable reduction in access-related security incidents by closing root-cause patterns rather than individually remediating incidents.
• Lead the effort to replace manual access approval and review processes with durable, automated controls at scale.
• Define and enforce access policy, supporting Meta's regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Develop technical controls that address the unique requirements of geographic expansion into higher-threat environments.
• Serve as an escalation point for urgent and highly confidential company escalations related to identity and access.

Skills

Security engineering

Identity and access management

Infrastructure systems

Job description

Meta in the United States is seeking a Director Software Engineering for Central Security to lead identity, authentication, and access management across our infrastructure. You will guide AI-enabled security programs and build automated controls at scale with cross-functional partners.

You will shape multi-site teams, advocate for strategic investments to reduce access-related incidents, and ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining speed of innovation across Meta's technology stack.