Security Engineer - Surface Coverage, Detection Engineering

3 Months ago • 6 Years + • Cyber Security • $147,000 PA - $208,000 PA

Job Summary

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

Job Details

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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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.

$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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