Senior Security Engineer: AI-Powered Vulnerability Automation

Meta; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Security Engineer on the Scaling – Vulnerability Management team to build ML-based systems that automate how vulnerabilities are identified, triaged, and remediated across Meta's codebase. You will design autonomous remediation pipelines and AI agents to surface real risk at scale.

This role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration across security, infrastructure, and product engineering to implement automated defenses and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS or security.
• 5+ years securing enterprise-scale infrastructure software.
• 3-5+ years programming in Python, PHP, or Ruby.
• Experience remediating security gaps using influence across boundaries.
• Experience with security automation/monitoring or 'compliance as code'.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered autonomous remediation pipelines for vulnerabilities.
• Develop ML-driven triage and contextualization agents for prioritizing tasks.
• Architect supply-chain defense systems with time-locked mirrors and metadata.
• Lead cross-functional strategy across security, infra, and product teams.
• Tackle ambiguous problems and own technically complex workstreams.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

Automation mindset

Security engineering

Education

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

Tools

Python

PHP

Ruby

Job description

Meta is seeking a Security Engineer on the Scaling – Vulnerability Management team to build ML-based systems that automate how vulnerabilities are identified, triaged, and remediated across Meta's codebase. You will design autonomous remediation pipelines and AI agents to surface real risk at scale.

This role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration across security, infrastructure, and product engineering to implement automated defenses and scalable processes.