Product Security Lead Engineer – Strategy & Scale

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Product Security team is seeking a Security Engineer to provide technical leadership across web and AI security. You will work with product teams and partner security orgs to define strategy, build tooling, and ship secure-by-design features for our agentic products and apps.

Responsibilities include authoring and reviewing code in Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, or C/C++, guiding roadmaps, designing scalable security solutions, and driving security maturity across Meta.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years work experience building and securing enterprise-scale infrastructure software and services.
• 8+ years work experience authoring code in Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C/C++ (or similar language).
• Experience fixing infrastructure security problems across broad corporate boundaries using influence and relationships.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, improving efficiency, scalability, and stability distributed systems and conducting threat model assessment of infrastructure software and services.
• Experience owning a particular component, feature or system.

Responsibilities

• Author code and conduct code reviews in: Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C/C++ (or similar language)
• Influence and align the organization’s vision and strategy, while engaging our teams to develop and deliver multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects.
• Conceive, design, and develop scalable, reliable security products, systems and/or frameworks.
• Identify and prioritize areas of improvement to the security maturity across Meta.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security maturity work is prioritized.
• Eliminate classes of security problems by shifting the detection and preventions left into the development workflow.
• Establish self as an owner of a particular security system with end-to-end understanding

Skills

Python

PHP

Java

Ruby

Go

Rust

C/C++

Education

B.S. or M.S. Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

Meta’s Product Security team is seeking a Security Engineer to provide technical leadership across web and AI security. You will work with product teams and partner security orgs to define strategy, build tooling, and ship secure-by-design features for our agentic products and apps.

Responsibilities include authoring and reviewing code in Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, or C/C++, guiding roadmaps, designing scalable security solutions, and driving security maturity across Meta.