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You will partner closely with engineering and product teams to embed security into the development lifecycle, turning one-off findings into systemic improvements that reduce risk at scale.\r\nRequired Skills:Security Engineer Responsibilities:Conduct in-depth security assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability research across Meta's products, services, and infrastructure\r\nIdentify security gaps in system designs and implementations, and drive cross-functional mitigations to resolution\r\nDevelop and improve security tooling, automation, and frameworks — including static and dynamic analysis — to enable scalable security coverage across engineering teams\r\nTranslate complex security findings into actionable guidance for engineering and product partners, influencing design and implementation decisions\r\nLead large-complexity security projects with ambiguous requirements, defining the approach and driving outcomes from discovery through remediation\r\nServe as a domain expert for the team, representing security positions in cross-functional collaborations and roadmap discussions\r\nHandle security incident response and on-call duties independently, coordinating with cross-functional partners to resolve issues\r\nMentor other engineers on secure coding practices, vulnerability classes, and security review methodologies\r\nIdentify opportunities to convert point-in-time security fixes into reusable, systemic improvements that benefit multiple teams and product areas\r\nProactively communicate project status, risks, and blockers to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders\r\nMinimum Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications:6+ years of experience in security engineering, including vulnerability research, penetration testing, or security assessments of production systems\r\nExperience identifying and exploiting common vulnerability classes (e.g., injection, authentication flaws, insecure deserialization, privilege escalation) across web, mobile, or infrastructure environments\r\nExperience developing security tooling or automation in one or more general-purpose programming or scripting languages\r\nExperience conducting threat modeling and security design reviews for large-scale distributed systems\r\nExperience driving security mitigations across cross-functional engineering teams, including communicating risk and influencing technical decisions through written proposals and stakeholder alignment\r\nPreferred Qualifications:Preferred Qualifications:Experience with security assessment of mobile platforms (iOS or Android) or cloud infrastructure environments\r\nExperience building static or dynamic analysis tools that scale security review processes across large engineering organizations\r\nDemonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies\r\nDemonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies\r\nDemonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)\r\nDemonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)\r\nDemonstrated contributions to the security community through public research, vulnerability disclosures, bug bounty programs, or conference presentations\r\nExperience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)\r\nExperience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)\r\nFamiliarity with exploit mitigation techniques and experience evaluating their effectiveness in production environments\r\nPublic Compensation:$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits\r\nIndustry:Internet\r\nEqual Opportunity:Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. 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