Security Analyst - Investigator; Financial Threats

Overview

The Integrity, Investigations, Intelligence and Events (i3E) teams at Meta are dedicated to protecting the users of our family of applications (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Whats App) from threats including criminal organizations, human trafficking/exploitation, and scams/fraud. We are seeking a security analyst to drive detection and mitigation strategy and execute large-scale, highly complex technical investigations to protect our users against threat actors who run sophisticated scam operations.

You will have the opportunity to work on challenging, high-visibility risks across the company. We are seeking an experienced analyst with expertise in project/program management to work across a large set of stakeholders to implement change, anticipate threat evolution, and recommend, own, and drive scaled mitigations. Successful candidates should be able to extract, assimilate, and correlate a wide variety of data to surface, analyze, and disrupt threat actors across multiple spaces.

Proficiency in various technical investigative skills, with practical experience in SQL, is required. Extensive experience investigating and mitigating high-severity, sophisticated scams on large-scale platforms/products is highly desirable.

• Investigate sophisticated scammer behaviors to understand how abuse manifests on Meta’s platforms and the wider information ecosystem using a variety of tooling and techniques, including innovative deployment of AI solutions where appropriate
• Lead a portfolio of investigative research to identify abuse trends, understand adversarial behavior, and design/driving forward-looking enforcement strategies to mitigate harm
• Leverage expert knowledge in fraud and scams to inform this work
• Own end-to-end complex scam investigations and partner with Policy, Ops, Engineering, Product, and Legal teams to translate findings into scaled mitigations
• Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse using internal data sets, open-source intelligence, and third-party private intelligence
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to advance investigations, quantify trends, and support findings with clear, concise evidence
• Lead development and refinement of investigative techniques, analytic methodologies, intelligence processes, and tools
• Synthesize abuse telemetry and qualitative insights into decision-ready assessments and recommendations that drive prioritization and result in concrete mitigations across investigations, engineering, policy, and product teams
• Apply operational rigor to investigations, analysis, and programs while pursuing strategic improvement opportunities
• Note:
  
  This role may involve exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive language, and other potentially disturbing material such as child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, etc.

• 8+ years of work experience performing security investigations in government, intelligence, cyber security, journalism, and/or private sector organizations
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in large-scale scam/fraud operations
• Experience leveraging SQL, OSINT, and network security concepts in an investigative context
• Adept at developing multi-source, evidence-based findings and communicating them to different stakeholders and leadership
• Experience working on high-impact threats under compressed timelines
• Experience prioritizing and executing with minimal direction or oversight
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Cyber Security or related field, or equivalent technical work experience

• Experience working with Python, PHP, or similar scripting languages
• Proven experience conducting large-scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools (e.g., Jupyter Notebook, Maltego)
• Experience with link analysis/graph-style investigations (entity resolution, clustering, relationship mapping)
• Experience in assessing/deploying AI-driven solutions for detection/enforcement
• Experience designing and managing projects with enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross-functional…