Senior Nation-State Security Engineer & Threat Architect

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, develop detection and response automation, and influence stakeholders across the organization.

You will identify critical assets, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will lead cross‑functional initiatives to strengthen incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role
• Experience in communicating 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
• BS in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Proactively 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, 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 standards and governance
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and scale investigation
• Influence asset-owning teams to adopt appropriate access control designs and operational 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

Cross-functional leadership

Executive security strategy

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, develop detection and response automation, and influence stakeholders across the organization.

You will identify critical assets, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will lead cross‑functional initiatives to strengthen incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats.