Meta

Security Engineer Lead, Security Foundations

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Base Salary

$271k - $347k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for shared company-wide security solutions and platforms across Security Engineering, Security Analyst, and Software Engineering teams.
  • Identify the highest-risk security issues, develop detailed threat models, and lead solution development across identity, cryptography, product access, AI, cloud, and asset management.
  • Define how AI agents are identified, authorized, and audited across Meta’s infrastructure.
  • Design and lead implementation of security solutions while balancing security, friction, cost, and business requirements.
  • Build partnerships across security, infrastructure, corporate engineering, and legal to translate ambiguous requirements into technical tradeoffs.
  • Represent security tradeoffs to VP and C-level leadership, including the CTO and CISO, and drive decisions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Deep technical expertise in at least one relevant security domain and the ability to become credible quickly in unfamiliar domains.
  • Significant experience driving large cross-company engineering initiatives.
  • Experience managing security risk and balancing security with organizational friction.
  • Experience communicating and influencing across functions to drive solutions.
  • Ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments and balance technical design with complex business and regulatory requirements.
  • Hands-on engineering experience and ability to lead across blended Security Engineering and Software Engineering organizations.
  • Preferred: experience with identity and access management, cryptographic systems, massively scaled infrastructure, AI/ML systems, agentic workloads, SOX, SOC 2, Linux, Windows, Active Directory, and SaaS environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $271,000/year to $347,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

LinuxWindows

Categories

Meta

About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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