Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) - Central Security

Meta; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Central Security team seeks a Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) to drive risk management across security domains. You will shape automated security systems using AI/ML, collaborate with product, infrastructure and enterprise engineering, and embed secure-by-design principles across the AI/ML lifecycle.

You will lead long-term technical vision, communicate complex features, mentor stakeholders, and guide multi-year roadmaps for large cross-company efforts, balancing

Qualifications

• 12+ years programming experience in a relevant language, or 8+ years with a PhD.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience mentoring or influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Experience using data to explain technical problems and provide solutions.
• Experience collaborating across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps aligning projects to long-term missions.
• Experience leading large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.

Responsibilities

• Drive team goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Programming experience

Executive stakeholder mentoring

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap planning

Engineering leadership

Multi-year planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD

Tools

C

C++

Java

Python

JavaScript

Hack

Job description

You'll be joining Central Security, Meta's first line of defense technology team, managing risk across critical security domains. You'll work within a cross-functional team of engineers, analysts, product managers and program managers, collaborating closely with colleagues across Product, Infrastructure and Enterprise Engineering. You will develop automated and autonomous security systems using AI/ML across high-impact the product security domains. The organization operates at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and enterprise security, helping shape how Meta approaches security across our entire technology stack, from custom-built systems to commercial software such as cloud services, and increasingly sophisticated AI/ML systems. Work in this organization includes embedding secure-by-design principles across the AI/ML lifecycle from conception to deployment, and identifying, assessing and mitigating security risks unique to AI/ML systems and the products built on them: classical ML, agentic product features, and frontier models. You will help navigate the tradeoffs between security requirements and operational friction so that Meta can maintain its pace of innovation while remaining secure.

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) - Central Security Responsibilities:

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack