Security Engineer: Build Scalable Defenses & Secure Systems

Meta; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

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Job summary

Meta's Security Engineering team is seeking a security engineer to identify vulnerabilities, drive mitigations, and build scalable protections across Meta's products and infrastructure. You will partner with engineering and product teams to embed security into development, translate findings into actionable guidance, and mentor others in secure coding practices.

This role requires 6+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience across web, mobile, and cloud environments, and a track

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in security engineering, including vulnerability research or security assessments of production systems.
• Experience identifying and exploiting common vulnerability classes across web, mobile, or infrastructure environments.
• Experience developing security tooling or automation in one or more programming or scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth security assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability research across Meta's products, services, and infrastructure.
• Identify security gaps in system designs and drive cross-functional mitigations to resolution.
• Develop and improve security tooling, automation, and frameworks to enable scalable security coverage across engineering teams.
• Translate complex security findings into actionable guidance for engineering and product partners, influencing design and implementation decisions.
• Lead large-complexity security projects with ambiguous requirements, defining the approach and driving outcomes from discovery through remediation.
• Serve as a domain expert for the team, representing security positions in cross-functional collaborations and roadmap discussions.
• Handle security incident response and on-call duties independently, coordinating with cross-functional partners to resolve issues.
• Mentor other engineers on secure coding practices, vulnerability classes, and security review methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to convert point-in-time security fixes into reusable, systemic improvements that benefit multiple teams and product areas.
• Proactively communicate project status, risks, and blockers to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Job description

Meta's Security Engineering team is seeking a security engineer to identify vulnerabilities, drive mitigations, and build scalable protections across Meta's products and infrastructure. You will partner with engineering and product teams to embed security into development, translate findings into actionable guidance, and mentor others in secure coding practices.

This role requires 6+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience across web, mobile, and cloud environments, and a track