Security Engineer - IR Threat Intelligence

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Summary

Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer - IR Threat Intelligence with extensive experience in investigating cyber threats with an intelligence-driven approach. You will be proactively responding to a wide-range of security threats, as well as tracking actor groups with an interest or capability to target Meta and its employees. You will also be identifying the gaps in current detections and preventions by long-term intelligence tracking and research, and working with cross-functional stakeholders to improve Meta’s security posture. You will be developing and improving the tooling and systems used by the team.

Required Skills

Security Engineer - IR Threat Intelligence Responsibilities:

• Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees, and identify, develop and implement countermeasures on our corporate network.
• Investigate, mitigate, and forecast emerging technical trends and communicate effectively with actionable suggestions to different types of audiences.
• Work closely with incident responders to provide useful and timely intelligence to enrich ongoing investigations.
• Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems.
• Engage constructively in cross-functional projects to improve the security posture of Meta’s infrastructure, such as red team operations, surface detection coverage expansion and vulnerability management discussions.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 7 years experience in a threat actor tracking or intelligence research role.
• Experience to work with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones.
• Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and experience to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures.
• Proven track record of managing and executing on short term and long term projects.
• Experience intelligence-led hunting to spot suspicious activities in the network and identify potential risks.
• Experience to prioritize and execute tasks with minimal direction or oversight.
• Experience to think critically and qualify assessments with solid communications skills.
• Coding or scripting experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or PHP.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience close collaborating with incident responders on incident investigations.
• Familiarity with malware analysis or network traffic analysis.
• Familiarity with nation-state, sophisticated criminal, or supply chain threats.
• Experience with production of file-based or network-based rules and signatures for detection and tracking of complex threats, such as YARA or Snort.
• Experience in one or more query languages such as SQL.
• Experience developing production code for threat intelligence tooling.
• Experience conducting large scale data analysis.
• Experience working across the broader security community.
  
  

Public Compensation

$147,000/year to $208,000/year bonus equity benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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