Director of Identity & Access Security Engineering

Meta; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Central Security unit seeks a Director of Software Engineering to define and lead the multi-year strategy for identity, authentication, and access across our infrastructure. The role spans Linux production, Windows corporate environments, AD, and cloud services, with a focus on agent identity as AI agents act on behalf of people.

You will build a distributed, cross-functional team of engineers and security specialists, partner with product, HR, legal and data science, and advocate for

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with a security focus.
• 7+ years in engineering management, incl. managers.
• Built and scaled engineering orgs with hiring and performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, data science.
• Strong data-driven decision making with metrics understanding.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year tech strategy for identity, auth, and access.
• Develop models for agent identity and authorization with AI.
• Scale a distributed org of engineers across global sites.
• Partner with Security, HR, Legal to balance security and velocity.
• Present to leadership on investments and risk decisions.

Skills

Software engineering

Security

Identity systems

Infrastructure

Engineering leadership

Tools

Linux

Windows

Active Directory

Job description

Meta's Central Security unit seeks a Director of Software Engineering to define and lead the multi-year strategy for identity, authentication, and access across our infrastructure. The role spans Linux production, Windows corporate environments, AD, and cloud services, with a focus on agent identity as AI agents act on behalf of people.

You will build a distributed, cross-functional team of engineers and security specialists, partner with product, HR, legal and data science, and advocate for