Lead Security Engineer - Anti-Scraping & Threat Defense

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Anti-Scraping engineering team within Privacy Engineering. You will guide a team building scalable anti-scraping infrastructure, collaborate with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Product teams, and define roadmaps to detect and mitigate scraping threats at scale.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional influence, and integrating AI to optimize detection workflows while ensuring responsible AI practices and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, privacy engineering, abuse prevention, or a closely related technical domain.
• 4+ years of experience managing software or security engineering teams, including performance management and hiring.
• Experience designing or operating systems for threat detection, bot mitigation, rate limiting, or abuse prevention at scale.
• Experience building cross‑functional relationships and influencing technical and non‑technical stakeholders on security or privacy strategy.
• Experience communicating technical risk assessments and enforcement tradeoffs in written form to leadership and partner teams.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize detection workflows and drive measurable improvements in coverage or enforcement efficiency.
• Experience applying machine learning or behavioral analytics to abuse detection or anomaly identification in large‑scale production environments.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
• Experience working within a privacy or regulatory compliance context, including familiarity with data protection frameworks relevant to unauthorized data collection.
• Experience with adversarial systems, including knowledge of scraping techniques, bot infrastructure, and evasion methods used by threat actors.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat detection

Bot mitigation

AI/ML in security

Stakeholder communication

Privacy frameworks

Adversarial systems

Machine learning

Team management

Data privacy

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

Meta seeks a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Anti-Scraping engineering team within Privacy Engineering. You will guide a team building scalable anti-scraping infrastructure, collaborate with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Product teams, and define roadmaps to detect and mitigate scraping threats at scale.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional influence, and integrating AI to optimize detection workflows while ensuring responsible AI practices and regulatory alignment.