Meta
Security Engineer
$271K–$347K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years
About the job
Leads cross-company security strategy and engineering for complex systems, building scalable controls and using AI-integrated workflows to improve security analysis and threat detection.
What you'll do
- Set security strategy and standards across organizational pillars; identify and address high-impact systemic risks.
- Lead threat modeling, architect security controls and guardrails, and drive scalable tooling and measurable risk reduction.
- Partner with senior leaders, mentor engineers, communicate security risks, and redesign security workflows using AI.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of experience managing security risk and balancing security with operational friction in large-scale organizations.
- Experience driving cross-company security engineering initiatives across distributed systems, access control, encryption, and intrusion detection.
- Experience with system design, threat modeling, risk assessment, and engineered security controls for complex environments.
- Experience integrating AI into security workflows and implementing responsible AI practices; applying threat intelligence; and communicating security decisions to varied audiences.
Nice to have
- Published security research, conference presentations, or open-source contributions influencing the external security community.
- Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration.
Pay
$271,000/year to $347,000/year USD base salary
Tools
distributed systems, access control, encryption, intrusion detection
AI focus
Redesign security analysis, threat detection, and engineering workflows using AI tools; assess risks, mitigate bias, and validate AI-generated outputs.
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