Director, Identity & Access Security (AI/ML)

Meta; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a senior security leader to own identity and access management across our infrastructure. You will shape multi-year IAM strategy, develop agent identity models, and build a global engineering and security organization.

The role partners with Security, HR, Legal, and Engineering teams to balance security with operational velocity, while reducing access-related incidents and automating approvals.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure.
• Lead the development of an agent identity and authorization model as AI agents act on behalf of people.
• Build and scale a distributed, multi-disciplinary organization of engineers and security staff across global sites.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and others to trade off security and operational velocity.
• Represent IAM perspectives to leadership, including CTO and CISO, advocating for investments.
• Drive measurable reduction in access-related incidents by closing root-cause patterns.
• Lead effort to replace manual access approvals with automated controls at scale.
• Define and enforce access policy supporting regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Develop controls for geographic expansion into higher-threat environments.
• Serve as escalation point for urgent confidential identity and access issues.

Skills

IAM strategy

Security engineering

Engineering management

Cross-functional partnerships

Data-driven decisions

Metrics & statistics

AI/ML security

Public cloud security

Job description

Meta is seeking a senior security leader to own identity and access management across our infrastructure. You will shape multi-year IAM strategy, develop agent identity models, and build a global engineering and security organization.

The role partners with Security, HR, Legal, and Engineering teams to balance security with operational velocity, while reducing access-related incidents and automating approvals.