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Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Cyber Security

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Job Description

Meta Security is seeking a Security Engineer with expertise in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You'll collaborate with Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to pinpoint critical assets, assess top risks, and analyze potential attacks against Meta systems. You'll work across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation using industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You'll generate detection ideas using some of the world's largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional projects to improve incident detection and response capabilities, reviewing the security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems, proposing logging, detection, and prevention controls, performing TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets, analyzing logs from various sources to identify potential threats and detection ideas, building response workflows and actions to auto-resolve false positives and provide context, supporting security incident response in a cross-functional environment, driving incident resolution, designing and implementing attack testing automation to validate detection coverage, and building logging pipelines using custom datasets and infrastructure.

Must have:

6+ years Detection & Response Engineering
Building complex automations & integrations
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Security
Designing systems for responding to threats
Analyzing network and host-based security events
Knowledge of networking technologies
Knowledge of operating systems
Coding/scripting experience
Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures

Good to have:

Security-focused software engineering experience
Designing large scale systems and data pipelines
Offensive security experience
Threat hunting experience
Broad knowledge across the Security domain
Deep focus in Logs and events processing
Incident Management
Digital Forensics
Offensive Security Testing
Detection and/or Response tooling development

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Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You’ll work alongside Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems. You will be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You’ll generate detection ideas utilizing some of the world’s largest data sets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents

Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently 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 ability 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

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role

Experience building complex automations and integrations using SOAR platforms

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Security

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

Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages

Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

Experience 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 deep 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

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About Meta

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$147,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about at Meta.

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$147.0K - $208.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$177.5K/yr avg.

Menlo Park, California, United States

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