Nation-State Security Engineer: Threat Detection Lead

Meta; Denver (CO); 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 groups to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation using both industry-standard and custom platforms.

You’ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. The role requires a hands-on leader with deep expertise in offensive or defensive cyber

Qualifications

• Ability to manage security risks in a fast-moving environment.
• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations or 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

• Identify and prioritize security risks across the company.
• Lead cross-company workstreams to deploy security capabilities.
• Apply attacker mindset to strengthen detection and response for complex threats.
• Perform TTP-based threat modeling for assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, cloud, and networking.
• Review security architecture and propose logging, detection, and prevention controls.
• Collaborate with policy and legal teams to strengthen standards and governance.
• Build response workflows to auto-resolve false positives and scale investigations.
• Influence asset-owning teams to adopt proper access control designs.
• Support security incident response in cross-functional environment and drive resolution.
• Build logging pipelines using custom datasets and infrastructure.

Skills

Security risk management

Cyber operations experience

Cross-functional communication

Executive security strategy

Engineering mindset

Threat design experience

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

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

You’ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. The role requires a hands-on leader with deep expertise in offensive or defensive cyber