Meta Verified
Social Media, Technology, Virtual Reality, Advertising
Security Engineer, Incident Response
Menlo Park, CAOnsiteFull Time$184,000–$257,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available
Required skills
- Security Incident Response
- Detection and Response Engineering
- large, regulated organization
- Security Operations
- Incident Response services
- complex cross-functional programs
- external threats
- insider threats
- TCP/IP
- networking technologies
Nice to have
- malware analysis
- digital forensics
- intrusion detection
- threat intelligence
- responsible, ethical AI practices
- risk assessment
Role summary
Meta Security is seeking an Incident Response Engineer to lead investigations and responses to internal and external threats. This role involves developing multi-year roadmaps to mature response services through automation and cross-functional partnerships. Responsibilities include conducting security investigations, driving incident resolution, refining operational metrics, and collaborating with engineering teams to build scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in Security Incident Response and Detection and Response Engineering within a large, regulated organization, with strong knowledge of networking, operating systems, and attacker TTPs. Preferred qualifications include experience in threat intelligence, malware analysis, digital forensics, and leading technical teams.
Meta Security is looking for an Incident Response Engineer with experience coordinating, investigating and responding to internal and external threats. You will help the team establish, lead and execute multi-year roadmaps to mature investigative and response services, drawing upon automation and cross functional partnerships to create scalable solutions and maintain high standards of operational competence.
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Conduct security investigations and lead security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution
- Develop Incident Response initiatives that improve our functionalities to effectively respond and remediate security incidents
- Refine operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to measure Security Operations and Incident Response services
- Influence and align the team’s mission and strategy. Collaboratively prioritize and deliver specific multi-year roadmaps and projects
- Build, cultivate, and maintain successful relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
- Partner with cross-functional teams to solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of detection and response initiatives
- Collaborate with software and production engineering teams to develop scalable and adaptable Incident Response and Investigative solutions
- Focus on identifying areas of greatest impact for prioritizing, automating and scaling every aspect of our detection and response functionalities
- Coach, mentor, support and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness and success at scale
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of work experience in Security Incident Response and Detection and Response Engineering in a large, regulated organization
- In-depth subject-matter knowledge in technical and process regarding Security Operations and Incident Response services
- Experience developing and delivering information on incident and program status for leadership
- Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs
- Experience 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 Qualifications
- Background in malware analysis, digital forensics, intrusion detection, and/or threat intelligence
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems
- Experience recruiting, building, and leading technical teams, including performance management
- Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as demonstrated experience in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Detection and/or response tool development
$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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