Nation-State Security Engineer: Detection & Response Lead

Meta; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom platforms.

You\u2019ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems, while building logging pipelines and supporting incident response in a cross-functional

Qualifications

• Understanding of how to manage security risks in a fast-moving environment
• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role
• Experience in communicating and influencing across functions to drive solutions
• Experience delivering executive-level security strategies
• 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
• B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and prioritize areas of risk across the company
• Lead major cross-company workstreams to deploy capabilities from multiple security teams to mitigate this risk
• Apply domain expertise and an attacker\'s mindset to lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at strengthening incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats
• Perform TTP-based threat modeling for a wide variety of assets, including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public and private cloud environments, and networking equipment
• Review the security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems, and independently propose logging, detection, and prevention controls
• Work with policy and legal teams to strengthen our standards and our governance
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context, scaling our ability to investigate
• Influence asset-owning teams and their leadership across Meta to adopt appropriate access control designs and operational processes
• Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution
• Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent work experience

Job description

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom platforms.

You\u2019ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems, while building logging pipelines and supporting incident response in a cross-functional