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Security Engineering Manager, Security Operations & Incident Response

Meta

Menlo Park, CAJob$184–257K/yrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$184–257K/yr
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta seeks a Security Engineering Manager for its Global Security Operations and Incident Response team. The manager will support and grow investigators and responders, develop sustainable multi-year roadmaps, and expand the team’s service portfolio. The role partners across the company to protect against internal and external threats and mature security operations and response capabilities across Meta’s infrastructure.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security Operations, requiredIncident Response, requiredSecurity Investigations, requiredTechnical Team Management, requiredRecruiting, requiredPerformance Management, requiredProgram Status Reporting, requiredSecurity Incident Reporting, requiredCross-Functional Program Management, requiredOperating Systems, requiredFile Systems, requiredMemory, requiredInterpreted Programming, requiredAttacker Tactics, requiredRisk Management, requiredCompliance, requiredIntrusion Detection, nice to haveInsider Threats, nice to haveDigital Forensics, nice to haveLogs and Events Processing, nice to haveIncident Management, nice to haveDetection Tool Development, nice to haveResponse Tool Development, nice to haveAI Workflow Integration, nice to haveResponsible AI Practices, nice to havePrompt Engineering, nice to haveContext Engineering, nice to haveAgent Orchestration, nice to have

Qualifications

10+ Years Security Experience, required2+ Years Technical Management, requiredBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent Security Experience, requiredLead Incident Response Engineer Experience, nice to have

Full job description

Summary:

Meta's security team drives data and system security across the company. We work across all parts of the company, from corporate infrastructure to production to external services, interfacing with nearly every team in the company.We are looking for a Security Engineering Manager with experience supporting teams of engineers and analysts who focus on the identification, investigation, containment, and mitigation of security incidents. The manager will be part of the Global Security Operations and Incident Response team and will be working alongside cross-functional partners to protect the company from internal and external threats as well as enabling the team to continuously scale security operations and response capabilities and services. You will support and help grow a team of investigators and responders, help set long term, sustainable and resilient multi-year roadmaps and grow the team's service portfolio while driving strategic initiatives to mature the capabilities of the team to scale across Meta's infrastructure.

Required Skills:

Security Engineering Manager, Security Operations & Incident Response Responsibilities:

  1. Support a team of security engineers and analysts who hunt, detect, and respond to internal and external threats.

  2. Influence and align the organization's vision and strategy, while engaging the team to develop and deliver specific, multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects.

  3. Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of project work within a changing business environment.

  4. Define operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to assure the team achieves operational excellence across Security Operations, Incident Response and Investigation services.

  5. Hire, grow, and build a team capable of meeting defined goals and delivering measurable outcomes capable of achieving the team's mission.

  6. Coach, mentor, support, and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness, and success at scale.

  7. Work with, partner, and influence other teams to develop engineering solutions designed to mitigate security risks and automate investigative and operational workloads.

  8. Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with cross-functional partners to enable the team's ability to effectively and efficiently execute on the service portfolio.

  9. Apply broad technical and process expertise across Security Operations and Incident Response domains to guide team decisions, inform strategy, and resolve complex issues.

  10. Collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional partners and teams to develop scalable and flexible investigative and incident response services.

  11. Focus on ruthlessly prioritizing, automating, and scaling every aspect of our Security Operations and Incident Response capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. 10+ years of work experience in Security Operations, Incident Response and Investigations, including 2+ years of proven hands-on technical management experience of security engineers and analysts

  2. Experience recruiting, building, and leading technical teams, including performance management

  3. Experience developing and delivering information on program status and security incidents for senior leadership

  4. Experience leading and managing complex multi-year cross-functional programs

  5. Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on Windows, MacOS, or Linux

  6. Experience with an interpreted programming language (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)

  7. Experience with attacker tactics, techniques and procedures

  8. Experience working across security, risk management, and compliance domains

  9. BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in security

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Background in intrusion detection, security investigations, insider threats or digital forensics

  2. Previous experience as a Lead security incident response engineer in a large, global and regulated organization

  3. 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, Detection and/or response tool development

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

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

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

Public Compensation:

$184,000/year to $257,000/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 1,049 open Security Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$184–257K/yr
  • California median$133–208K/yr104 salary ranges
  • US median$113–201K/yr683 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $221K, is 35% above the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Security Operations salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 136 open Security Operations jobs in California and 1,049 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Security Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 917 postings).
Education
228 of the 1,049 open Security Operations jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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