Meta Security Engineering Manager - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

Meta’s security team is the central engine driving data and system security across corporate infrastructure, production, and external services, interfacing with nearly every team in the company.

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager experienced in supporting teams focused on threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering securing Meta’s surfaces. You will support security engineers who collaborate with Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems.

This role involves working across engineering teams supporting Meta’s Corporate, Cloud, and Production systems, which serve over 3.2 billion daily active users. You will support teams developing detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom platforms. Engineers on the Surface Coverage team generate detection ideas utilizing some of the world’s largest data sets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Security Engineering Manager Responsibilities:

• Influence and align the organization’s vision and strategy.
• Engage your team to develop and deliver specific, multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects.
• Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment.
• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals.
• Partner with leadership to influence and drive organizational design, contribution, and prioritization.
• Participate in technical design and strategy.
• Lead and guide engineering practices to sustain a high-performance team.
• Integrate security in a constantly evolving environment where process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with cross-functional partners to enable effective and efficient project execution.
• Hire, grow, and build a high performing team to achieve the team’s mission.
• Work across partners in Product Management, Data Science, and Data Engineering to design and iterate on metrics and goals related to attack enumeration and detection coverage and validation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in Security.
• 8+ years of experience in Security or Software Engineering, including 3+ years of hands-on technical management in security engineering or security software engineering in product-driven environments.
• Proven track record of supporting security research, engineering, or other technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience in working across organizational boundaries to achieve company-wide impact.
• Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats.
• Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
• Scripting experience with an interpreted programming language (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc).
• Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and detection strategies.
• Broad knowledge across the security, systems design, offensive security, and detection engineering domains.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in one or more Security domains.
• Experience with Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and large scale containerized environments is a significant plus.
• Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or in offensive security.
• Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems.
• Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as log and events processing, Incident Management, Offensive Security, Detection and/or Response tooling development.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed reflect the base 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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