Senior Security Architect & Strategy Lead

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Cross-Meta Security organization seeks a distinguished Security Engineer to drive security strategy across pillars, shaping how Meta identifies and mitigates systemic risk across its global infrastructure, products, and platforms.

You will partner with senior leadership, define pillar-level goals, and deliver engineered controls that enable product teams to move fast while managing risk. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and scalable security solutions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience managing security risk in large-scale organizations.
• Experience with distributed systems, access control, encryption, and intrusion detection.
• Ability to communicate complex security risk to senior leadership in writing and speech.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive security strategy and engineering standards across pillar-wide scope.
• Identify and solve high-impact security problems spanning systems and controls.
• Lead threat modeling and risk assessments for complex infrastructures.
• Architect security controls and guardrails enabling product teams to move fast with reduced risk.
• Partner with senior leadership to set pillar-level security goals and drive execution.
• Identify gaps in security tooling and drive scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and future leaders, contributing to security culture.

Skills

Security strategy

Threat modeling

Distributed systems

Risk assessment

Intrusion detection

Guardrails

Cross-functional leadership

AI in security

Security leadership

Job description

Meta's Cross-Meta Security organization seeks a distinguished Security Engineer to drive security strategy across pillars, shaping how Meta identifies and mitigates systemic risk across its global infrastructure, products, and platforms.

You will partner with senior leadership, define pillar-level goals, and deliver engineered controls that enable product teams to move fast while managing risk. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and scalable security solutions.