Security Strategist

Meta; Bellevue, Menlo Park, New York (WA, CA, NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a distinguished Security Strategist to shape multi-year risk direction across complex domains and partner with the CISO and senior leadership to drive execution across engineering, product, and business teams.

You will identify systemic risks requiring investment, define guiding frameworks, and translate threat intelligence into prioritized, business-relevant decisions at global scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of experience setting security strategy and managing risk in large-scale organizations.
• Experience defining multi-year security strategy and roadmaps adopted across multiple teams.
• Experience with system design, threat modeling, and risk assessment in complex environments.
• Ability to communicate security risk and trade-offs to executives in writing.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year security direction across risk domains and determine investment priorities.
• Define frameworks and roadmaps guiding security decisions and drive execution with leadership.

Skills

Security leadership

Security risk management

Threat modeling

Executive communication

AI security risk

Security architecture

Threat intelligence integration

AI tools for security

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Job description

Meta is seeking a distinguished Security Strategist to set multi-year security direction across the company's most complex and consequential risk domains. In this role, you will determine which systemic security risks warrant investment and in what order, define the frameworks and roadmaps that guide those decisions, and partner with the CISO and senior leadership to drive execution across engineering, product, and business organizations. Your work will shape how Meta anticipates and reduces risk at global scale, protecting billions of people and their data.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience15+ years of experience setting security strategy and managing security risk in large-scale organizations
• Experience defining multi-year security strategy and roadmaps adopted across multiple organizations, with demonstrated measurable risk reduction
• Experience with system design, threat modeling, and risk assessment across complex, multi-layered infrastructure and product environments
• Experience communicating complex security risk and technical trade-offs in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences, and defending prioritization decisions to executive leadership
• Experience translating threat intelligence and risk analysis into prioritized investment decisions
• Experience as a principal-level technical leader or strategist in a security organization operating at scale
• Experience defining security strategy for AI and machine learning systems, including model, data, and agent-related risk
• Experience quantifying security risk in financial or business terms to drive investment decisions
• Track record of industry-recognized contributions to security, such as published research, conference presentations, standards bodies, or open-source contributions
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience applying current threat intelligence on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to proactively shape defensive security architecture at scale