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Security Engineer Intern, Detection & Response

Meta
Greendale, WI Intern
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025

Security Engineer Intern, Detection & Response

Meta

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Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer Intern with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You’ll work alongside Security Analysts, Software Engineers, and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate and detect potential internal and external 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 and implementations utilizing some of the world’s largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Work in 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 ability to investigate.
  • Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution for internal and external threats.
  • Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage.
  • Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure.
  • Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees.
  • Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems and various intelligence feeds.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Must be in the process of obtaining a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
  • 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.
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship.
  • Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role.
  • Experience designing systems used for responding to external and / or insider threats.
  • Experience building automations and integrations using SOAR platforms.
  • 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 investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems.
  • Experience with anomaly detection applicable to the insider threat detection space.
  • Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and skills to convert the tracking results to long-term countermeasures.
  • Familiarity with threat modeling frameworks, such as Diamond Model and / or MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting to spot suspicious activities and identify potential risks, and experience with building notebooks to automate such hunts.
  • Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep 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.
  • For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information.

    Compensation : $7,313 / month to $11,293 / month benefits

    Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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