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Security Engineer, Nation State

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Multiple U.S. locationsJob$219–301K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$219–301K/yr
Location
Multiple U.S. locations
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta Security seeks an experienced Security Engineer to join its Nation State leadership team. The role works across security and engineering teams to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation. It also partners with Security Engineers and Analysts to identify critical assets and tactics, techniques, and procedures, assess risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security Risk ManagementCross-Functional CommunicationStakeholder InfluenceExecutive Security StrategyEngineeringComplex Systems ReasoningThreat Response System DesignAI Workflow IntegrationResponsible AI PracticesPrompt EngineeringContext EngineeringAgent OrchestrationThreat HuntingSecurity Software EngineeringLarge-Scale Systems DesignData Pipeline DesignOffensive SecuritySecurity Domain KnowledgeLogs and Events ProcessingDefensive SecurityDetection Tooling DevelopmentResponse Tooling Development

Qualifications

10+ Years Cybersecurity ExperienceBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent

Full job description

Summary:

Meta Security is looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join our Nation State leadership team. You will be working across security and engineering teams to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You’ll also work alongside Security Engineers and Analysts to identify critical assets and TTPs, assess the top risks, and evaluate potential attacks against Meta systems.

Required Skills:

Security Engineer, Nation State Responsibilities:

  1. Proactively identify and prioritize areas of risk across the company

  2. Lead major cross-company workstreams to deploy capabilities from multiple security teams to mitigate this risk

  3. Apply domain expertise and an attacker's mindset to lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at strengthening incident detection and response capabilities for complex threats

  4. Perform TTP-based threat modeling for a wide variety of assets, including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public and private cloud environments, and networking equipment

  5. Review the security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems, and independently propose logging, detection, and prevention controls

  6. Work with policy and legal teams to strengthen our standards and our governance

  7. Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context, scaling our ability to investigate

  8. Influence asset-owning teams and their leadership across Meta to adopt appropriate access control designs and operational processes

  9. Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution

  10. Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Understanding of how to manage security risks in a fast-moving environment

  2. 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role

  3. Experience in communicating and influencing across functions to drive solutions

  4. Experience delivering executive-level security strategies

  5. Engineering experience and the capacity to understand and reason about complex technical systems

  6. Experience designing systems used for responding to both external and insider threats

  7. B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  2. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  3. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  4. Experience operating as a technical leader in a high-performance and high-trust security engineering team

  5. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  6. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  7. Experience in threat hunting, including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems

  8. Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large-scale systems and data pipelines, and offensive security

  9. Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as logs and events processing, offensive or defensive security, or detection and/or response tooling development

  10. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 3,938 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$219–301K/yr
  • Rhode Island median$113–203K/yr21 salary ranges
  • US median$129–208K/yr3,211 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $260K, is 65% above the Rhode Island median midpoint ($158K) — in the top quarter of Security Engineer salary ranges in Rhode Island.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 21 open Security Engineer jobs in Rhode Island and 3,938 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,405 postings).
Education
1,532 of the 3,938 open Security Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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