Nation-State Security Engineer: Threat Detection & Response

Meta; Honolulu (HI); 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 while surveying assets and TTPs to assess top risks.

You will build logging pipelines, lead cross-functional initiatives, and help defend Meta systems against complex threats across endpoints, cloud, and networks.

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 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.

Skills

Security strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Threat modeling

Incident response

Detection engineering

Logging pipeline design

AI tools integration

Executive communication

Security operations

Education

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

Tools

SIEM

Threat intelligence platforms

Incident response tooling

Security automation platforms

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 while surveying assets and TTPs to assess top risks.

You will build logging pipelines, lead cross-functional initiatives, and help defend Meta systems against complex threats across endpoints, cloud, and networks.