Security Engineering Manager - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

Meta’s security team is the central engine driving data and system security. We work across all parts of the company, from corporate infrastructure to production to external services, interfacing with nearly every team in the company.We are looking for a Security Engineering Manager with experience supporting teams of engineers who focus on threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering securing Meta’s surfaces. You’ll support a team of security engineers who 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 Meta’s Corporate, Cloud, and Production systems, serving over 3.2 billion daily active users, by supporting teams developing detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. Engineers on the Surface Coverage team generate detection ideas utilizing some of the world’s largest data sets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Security Engineering Manager - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
• Participate in technical design and strategy
• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
• Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution and prioritization
• Lead and guide engineering culture to sustain a high performance team
• Integrate security in a constantly evolving environment where process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with cross-functional partners to enable the team’s ability to effectively and efficiently execute on project work
• Hire, grow, and build a high performing team capable of achieving the team’s mission
• Work across partners in Product Management, Data Science, and Data Engineering to design and iterate on metrics and goals related to attack enumeration and detection coverage and validation
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in Security
• 10+ years of experience in Security or Software Engineering, including 2+ years of hands-on technical management in security systems, security software development in product-driven environments
• Proven track record of supporting security research, engineering, or other technical teams
• Demonstrated experience in working across organizational boundaries to achieve company-wide impact
• Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs
• Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats
• Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Scripting experience with an interpreted programming language (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc)
• Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and detection strategies
• Broad knowledge across the security, systems design, offensive security, and detection engineering domains
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in one or more Security domains, experience with Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and large scale containerized environments is a significant plus
• Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or in 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 Log and events processing, Incident Management, Offensive Security, Detection and/or Response tooling development
  
  

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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 benefits at Meta.