Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

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Summary

Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You’ll work alongside Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You’ll generate detection ideas utilizing some of the world’s largest data sets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Required Skills

Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents
• Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently propose logging, detection and prevention controls
• Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment
• Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas
• Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our investigators
• Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution
• Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage
• Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
• Experience building complex automations and integrations using SOAR platforms
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience in Security
• Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats
• Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
• Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
• Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive security
• Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigates suspicious behavior across networks and systems
• Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling development
  
  

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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