Meta
Security Engineer Lead, Security Foundations
$271K–$347K
Menlo Park, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Remote, US - Education
- B.S. Computer Science or related field
About the job
Sets technical direction for company-wide security controls and platforms across Meta’s security domains, leading risk prioritization, solution design, and cross-functional implementation.
What you'll do
- Identify high-risk issues across domains and lead threat modeling and solutions.
- Set technical direction and drive design and implementation of shared security platforms and controls, including AI agent identity, authorization, and auditing.
- Build cross-functional partnerships and represent security tradeoffs to senior leaders to drive decisions.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one relevant security domain and ability to become credible quickly in unfamiliar domains.
- Significant experience driving large cross-company engineering initiatives and managing security risk in a large organization.
- Hands-on engineering experience and ability to lead across Security Engineering and Software Engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience securing AI/ML systems or agentic workloads.
- Familiarity with SOX, SOC 2, or comparable control frameworks; experience across production Linux and corporate Windows, Active Directory, or SaaS environments.
Pay
$271,000/year to $347,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity (amounts not stated)
Tools
Active Directory, Linux, Windows, SaaS
AI focus
Define how AI agents are identified, authorized, and audited across Meta infrastructure; the posting also seeks experience securing AI/ML systems or agentic workloads.
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