Director, Security Software Engineering — IAM & AI Access

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Central Security team is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure. You will guide an AI-enabled security program, embedding secure-by-design practices in the AI/ML lifecycle while balancing security with rapid innovation.

You will build and scale a global software engineering and security organization, partnering with Product, Infrastructure, HR, and Legal to translate complex requirements into

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with a security, identity, or infrastructure focus.
• 7+ years of engineering management, including managing engineering managers.
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting and developing engineers and leaders.
• Experience forming cross-functional partnerships with product, design, and data science.
• Experience reasoning with metrics, data, and ecosystem trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure.
• Lead development of an agent identity and authorization model as AI agents act on behalf of people across infrastructure.
• Build and scale a distributed, multi-site organization of engineers and security staff.
• Translate business requirements into security vs. operational velocity trade-offs.
• Represent identity and access perspectives to leadership including CTO and CISO, advocating investments and risk decisions.
• Drive reductions in access-related security incidents by addressing root causes.

Skills

Senior-level security software eng

Engineering management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Strategic leadership

Job description

Meta's Central Security team is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure. You will guide an AI-enabled security program, embedding secure-by-design practices in the AI/ML lifecycle while balancing security with rapid innovation.

You will build and scale a global software engineering and security organization, partnering with Product, Infrastructure, HR, and Legal to translate complex requirements into