Senior Security Engineer: Nation-State Threat Defense

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation leveraging industry-standard and custom platforms.

You’ll collaborate with Security Engineers and Analysts to identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role.
• Ability to communicate and influence across functions to drive solutions.
• Experience delivering executive-level security strategies.
• Engineering experience to understand and reason about complex technical systems.
• Experience designing systems for responding to external and insider threats.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and prioritize areas of risk across the company.
• Lead cross-company workstreams to deploy capabilities from multiple security teams to mitigate risk.
• Apply attacker mindset to lead initiatives strengthening incident detection and response for complex threats.
• Perform TTP-based threat modeling for assets across endpoints, cloud environments, and networking equipment.
• Review 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 that auto-resolve false positives and enable faster investigations.
• Influence asset-owning teams to adopt appropriate access control designs and processes.
• Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Incident response

Detection engineering

Executive communication

Engineering mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Security strategy

Risk assessment

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Custom detection platforms

Threat intelligence tools

Job description

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will work across security and engineering to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation leveraging industry-standard and custom platforms.

You’ll collaborate with Security Engineers and Analysts to identify critical assets and TTPs, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems.