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Meta · 1 day ago

Security Engineer, Investigator - i3E Account Threats & Scams

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$154K/yr - $217K/yr

5+ years exp

Meta is a technology company dedicated to connecting people and building communities. They are seeking an experienced security engineer to protect users from account security issues by solving complex problems, detecting scams, and investigating threats.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open source intelligence, and third-party private intelligence

Investigate complex account security abuses to understand in granular detail how abuse is occurring. Identify and implement appropriate detection or prevention strategies to mitigate harm both in the current case and from similar forward-looking abuse

Apply subject matter knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, procedures, and tools to identify and mitigate threats

Build signatures (e.g. file, network) to detect, hunt, and prevent malware compromise

Lead technical investigations from start-to-finish, to include effectively communicating actionable results, analytic judgments, and mitigations to different audience types across cross-functional settings

Identify trends in adversary behavior, and proactive surfacing of risks that may represent previously unidentified or novel vectors for harm. Understand how abuse manifests and clearly explain emerging threats and trends, with an emphasis on security understanding

Analyze and interpret complex, high volume, and high dimensionality data from varying sources to advance investigations, quantify trends, or support findings

Lead identifying, prototyping, and teaching novel investigative techniques

Partner with other cross-functional teams to identify, influence, and implement holistic solutions to surfacing and responding to emerging threats

Manage multiple projects at once while effectively prioritizing time, based on team priorities

Use AI to advance investigations and automate the everyday tasks and actions conducted during investigations and team processes

Qualification

Cyber security experienceData analysisPython proficiencyThreat investigationAI tooling experienceCommunication skillsCritical thinkingProject management

Required

5+ years work experience in a cyber security, security investigations, or cyber threat intelligence investigations role

Adept at building queries to analyze and interpret large datasets to advance investigations, quantify trends or support findings

Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats such as account compromise, account automation tooling, account creation abuse, business compromise, scams, phishing attacks or malware analysis

Proficiency working with Python, PHP, or similar scripting languages

Experience thinking critically and qualifying assessments with solid communications skills in a cross-functional setting to influence decision makers across all levels of technical background

Experience identifying effective strategies to prevent or disrupt abuse at scale. Consult on the design of countermeasures to affect those strategies