Meta · 1 day ago
Security Engineer - Detection Engineering, Surface Coverage
Washington, DC
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$122K/yr - $181K/yr
2+ years expMeta is looking for a Security Engineer with expertise in threat modeling and detection engineering. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to enhance detection and response automation, while also assessing risks and identifying potential attacks against Meta systems.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional projects to improve our functionalities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents
Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and under your own initiative propose logging, detection and prevention controls
Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment
Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas
Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our capacity to investigate
Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution
Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage
Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure
Qualification
Required
2+ years of experience in Detection and Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Cyber Security
Experience building complex automations and integrations using Security Orchestration, Automation and Response platforms
Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats
Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) and the related protocols
Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
Preferred
Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
Experience building complex automations and integrations using Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms
Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive security
Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigates suspicious behavior across networks and systems
Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as thorough focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling development
Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats
Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Meta
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
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