Meta

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

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London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the multi-year technical strategy for account and entity compromise across Meta’s Family of Apps.
  • Define and improve authentication and recovery integrity, compromise detection, enforcement, remediation, and harm-measurement systems.
  • Establish technical direction in ambiguous, adversarial problem areas and sequence initiatives to reduce real-world harm.
  • Bring integrity requirements into new products and account models, including newly launched apps such as Muse.
  • Define metrics for compromise rates, harm prevented, recovery success, and false-positive costs.
  • Partner across Meta and communicate technical trade-offs involving user protection, product friction, and business outcomes.
  • Identify opportunities to accelerate the company through centralized tooling and systems across legacy identity systems and new account models.
  • Reassess plans, communicate trade-offs, and iterate as priorities and requirements change.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience building large-scale applications or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of programming experience.
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience communicating and working cross-functionally to drive solutions.
  • Experience driving large cross-functional or industry-wide engineering efforts.
  • Experience mentoring and influencing engineers across organizations.
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
  • Proven ability to plan multi-year roadmaps in which shorter-term projects support a long-term vision.
  • Preferred: experience delivering step-change system improvements through architectural rethinking or ground-up rebuilds.
  • Preferred: experience with adversarial problems, abuse or fraud detection, trust and safety, risk, security, privacy, compliance, or regulated-domain engineering.
  • Preferred: experience integrating AI-assisted development practices and agent-based workflows.
  • Preferred: experience defining reliability, performance, or quality frameworks adopted at organizational or company-wide scale.

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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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