Security Engineer - Security Risk Management

Meta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

The Meta Security team is seeking a committed security engineer to join the Security Risk Management (SRM) group and help design and build scalable solutions for risk contextualization, tracking, and reporting across Meta’s software. You’ll collaborate with software, data, and security engineers to automate risk responses and prove the effectiveness of controls.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in securing enterprise-scale infrastructure, 3–5+ years programming with Python or similar languages,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/InfoSec.
• 5+ years securing enterprise-scale infrastructure software and services.
• 3-5+ years programming with Python, PHP, Ruby, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience remediating infrastructure security gaps across corporate boundaries.
• Experience with security control automation/monitoring or compliance as code.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of engineers to design, build, and own scalable security solutions.
• Scale security risk contextualization, tracking, and reporting across systems.
• Influence evolution of security capabilities and automate monitoring.

Skills

Security risk management

Automation & tooling

Cross-functional influence

Threat modeling

AI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant field

Tools

Linux

Windows

Python

Job description

Summary:

The Meta Security team is responsible for improving the security posture of the software and services used throughout our company. Our work spans Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and all of the underlying systems and infrastructure that power these products behind the scenes.We are seeking a committed and experienced security engineer to join our Security Risk Management (SRM) team to help design and build solutions to:* Drive better understanding of security risk and enable investment decisions through automation, monitoring, and tracking of Meta’s security tools, systems, and controls* Enable security and software engineers to seamlessly respond to requests to prove effective design and operation of security capabilities* Increase maturity of security capabilities through control improvements and redesign

Required Skills:

Security Engineer - Security Risk Management Responsibilities:

1. Work with a team of software, data, and security engineers that design, build, and own software solutions that scale high fidelity security risk contextualization, tracking, and reporting

2. Understand and influence evolution of security capabilities across various domains to scale and automate: a) monitoring the effectiveness, and b) increasing the maturity of those capabilities

3. Design and build solutions to scale managing and responding to risk management & compliance related requests

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant field (or equivalent experience)

2. 5+ years work experience securing enterprise-scale infrastructure software and services

3. 3-5+ years programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Python, PHP, Ruby, or similar scripting languages

4. Experience remediating infrastructure security gaps across broad corporate boundaries using influence and relationships

5. Experience with security control automation/monitoring or “compliance as code” implementations

6. Experience thinking critically and defending solutions with communication skills in a cross-functional setting to influence decision makers across all levels of technical background

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

2. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

3. Networking and system administration experience of server (Linux, Windows) and client (Windows, macOS, Linux) operating systems

4. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

5. Experience with common risk & compliance program activities (e.g., controls, risk, policy management)

6. Experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency

7. Experience influencing software engineers to build products meant to scale security solutions

Public Compensation:

$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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