Director of Secure Identity & Access (AI/ML)

Meta; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director Software Engineering for Central Security. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team across identity, authentication, and access management, influencing infrastructure and governance across a global technology stack.

You will drive automation, secure-by-design AI/ML lifecycles, and partner with cross-functional teams to balance security and operational velocity. The role emphasizes building scalable security organizations, measuring outcomes, and advising executive

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on security, identity, or infrastructure systems.
• 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers.
• Proven track record 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.
• Build and scale a distributed, multi-disciplinary organization across global sites.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and other teams to translate 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-cause patterns.
• Lead the effort to replace manual access approval and review processes with automated controls at scale.
• Define and enforce access policy to support regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Develop technical controls for geographic expansion into higher-threat environments.
• Serve as escalation point for urgent, confidential identity and access escalations.

Skills

Security engineering

Identity and Access Management

Infrastructure systems

Engineering management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Meta is seeking a Director Software Engineering for Central Security. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team across identity, authentication, and access management, influencing infrastructure and governance across a global technology stack.

You will drive automation, secure-by-design AI/ML lifecycles, and partner with cross-functional teams to balance security and operational velocity. The role emphasizes building scalable security organizations, measuring outcomes, and advising executive