Security Engineer - Detection Engineering, Surface Coverage
Job in
Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98009, USA
Listing for:
Meta
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-01-03
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 117000 - 173000 USD Yearly
USD
117000.00
173000.00
YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 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 - Detection Engineering, Surface Coverage Responsibilities:
Lead cross‑functional projects to improve our functionalities to effectively detect and respond to security incidentsReview security architecture of large‑scale custom and commercial systems and under your own initiative propose logging, detection and prevention controlsPerform TTP‑based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipmentPerform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideasBuild response workflows and actions that auto‑resolve false positives and provide context scaling our capacity to investigateSupport security incident response in a cross‑functional environment and drive incident resolutionDesign and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverageBuild logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructureMinimum Qualifications:2+ years of experience in Detection and Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering roleBachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Cyber SecurityExperience building complex automations and integrations using Security Orchestration, Automation and Response platformsExperience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threatsExperience analyzing network and host‑based security eventsKnowledge of networking technologies, specifically Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) and the related protocolsKnowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and LinuxCoding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languagesExperience with attacker tactics, techniques, and proceduresPreferred Qualifications:Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering roleExperience building complex automations and integrations using Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platformsBackground in security‑focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive securityExperience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systemsBroad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as thorough focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling developmentExperience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threatsExperience analyzing network and host‑based security eventsKnowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocolsKnowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux$117,000/year to $173,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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