Nation-State Security Engineer: Lead Detection & Response

Meta; Topeka (KS); 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 drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation across security and engineering teams.

You will identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will collaborate with Security Engineers and Analysts to build logging pipelines, deploy capabilities from multiple teams, and strengthen incident

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role.
• Experience 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 attackers mindset to lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at strengthening incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats.
• Perform TTP-based threat modeling for assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, cloud environments, and networking equipment.
• Review the security architecture of large-scale systems, and propose logging, detection, and prevention controls.
• Work with policy and legal teams to strengthen standards and governance.
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context for investigations.
• Influence asset-owning teams to adopt appropriate access control designs and processes.
• Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution.
• Build logging pipelines using custom datasets and infrastructure.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Security architecture

Risk management

AI tools integration

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

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

You will identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will collaborate with Security Engineers and Analysts to build logging pipelines, deploy capabilities from multiple teams, and strengthen incident