Director of AI-Driven Identity & Access Security

Meta; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Central Security team is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to shape multi-year identity, authentication, and access management across its infrastructure. You will lead a cross-functional group of engineers, security experts, and product managers, building automated controls and scalable security concepts for the enterprise stack.

You will translate business needs into secure, measurable outcomes, partner with executives, and advance security across AI/ML systems while balancing

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in 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 engineers and 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.
• Lead the development of a model for agent identity and authorization as AI agents 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.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and other teams to translate business requirements into security vs. velocity tradeoffs.
• 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 addressing root causes.
• Lead the effort to replace manual access approvals with automated controls at scale.
• Define and enforce access policy, supporting regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Develop technical controls for geographic expansion into higher-threat environments.
• Serve as escalation point for urgent, highly confidential security escalations related to identity and access.

Skills

Security focus

Engineering management

Scaling orgs

Cross-functional partnerships

Data-driven decisions

Job description

Meta's Central Security team is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to shape multi-year identity, authentication, and access management across its infrastructure. You will lead a cross-functional group of engineers, security experts, and product managers, building automated controls and scalable security concepts for the enterprise stack.

You will translate business needs into secure, measurable outcomes, partner with executives, and advance security across AI/ML systems while balancing