Lead Nation-State Security Engineer & Threat Detection

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the Nation State leadership team. You will drive strategy across security and engineering, develop detection and response automation, and influence stakeholders to strengthen incident detection and response capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, perform TTP-based threat modeling, review architectures, and build logging pipelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role.
• Experience delivering executive-level security strategies.
• Ability to communicate and influence across functions to drive solutions.
• Engineering experience and the capacity to understand and reason about complex technical systems.
• Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and prioritize areas of risk across the company.
• Lead cross-company workstreams to deploy capabilities from multiple security teams.
• Drive incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats.
• Perform TTP-based threat modeling across endpoints, cloud, and networks.
• Review security architecture and propose logging, detection, and prevention controls.
• Work with policy and legal teams to strengthen governance.
• Build response workflows to auto-resolve false positives and provide context.
• Influence asset-owning teams to adopt proper access controls and processes.
• Support security incident response in cross-functional environments.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Cross-functional influence

Incident response

AI tools integration

Tools

SIEM

Job description

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the Nation State leadership team. You will drive strategy across security and engineering, develop detection and response automation, and influence stakeholders to strengthen incident detection and response capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, perform TTP-based threat modeling, review architectures, and build logging pipelines.