Nation-State Security Engineer: Threat Detection & Response

Meta; Indianapolis (IN); 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 collaborate with security and engineering teams to drive strategy and develop detection and response automation leveraging industry-standard and custom platforms.

You’ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, review architectures, and build automated workflows to reduce false positives while accelerating incident resolution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role.
• Ability to communicate 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public and private 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 our standards and governance
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context
• Influence asset-owning teams and their leadership across Meta to adopt access control designs and 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 operations

Threat modeling

Incident response

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field

Job description

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will collaborate with security and engineering teams to drive strategy and develop detection and response automation leveraging industry-standard and custom platforms.

You’ll identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, review architectures, and build automated workflows to reduce false positives while accelerating incident resolution.