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Meta Security Engineer - Detect & Respond (University Grad) in Menlo Park, California
Summary:
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 internal and external 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.
Required Skills:
Security Engineer - Detect & Respond (University Grad) Responsibilities:
Work in 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 for internal and external threats
Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage
Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure
Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees
Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems and various intelligence feeds
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Currently has, or is in the process, of obtaining a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Security
Experience designing systems used for responding to external and/or 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
Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
Experience building automations and integrations using SOAR platforms
Background 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
Experience with anomaly detection applicable to the insider threat detection space
Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and skills to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures
Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework
Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting to spot suspicious activities and identify potential risks, and experience with building notebooks to automate such hunts
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
Public Compensation:
$105,000/year to $137,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
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