Security Engineer - IR Threat Intelligence
full-time•New York, Bellevue, Washington, Menlo Park•$154k - $217k
About this role
Meta Security is looking for a threat intelligence investigator with extensive experience in investigating cyber threats with an intelligence-driven approach. You will be proactively responding to a broad set of security threats, as well as tracking actor groups with an interest or capability to target Meta and its employees. You will also be identifying the gaps in current detections and preventions by long-term intelligence tracking and research, and working with cross-functional stakeholders to improve Meta’s security posture.
$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees, and identify, develop and implement countermeasures on our corporate network
- Investigate, mitigate, and forecast emerging technical trends and communicate effectively with actionable suggestions to different types of audiences
- Work closely with incident responders to provide useful and timely intelligence to enrich ongoing investigations
- Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems
- Engage constructively in cross-functional projects to improve the security posture of Meta’s infrastructure, such as red team operations, surface detection coverage expansion and vulnerability management discussions
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years threat intelligence experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Security
- Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and ability to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures
- Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model or/and MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Experience intelligence-driven hunting to spot suspicious activities in the network and identify potential risks
- Proven track record of managing and executing on short term and long term projects
- Ability to work with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks with minimal direction or oversight
- Ability to think critically and qualify assessments with solid communications skills
- Coding or scripting experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or PHP
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience close collaborating with incident responders on incident investigations
- Familiarity with malware analysis or network traffic analysis
- Familiarity with nation-state, sophisticated criminal, or supply chain threats
- Production of file-based or network-based rules and signatures for detection and tracking of complex threats, such as YARA or Snort
- Experience in one or more query languages such as SQL
- Experience writing production code for threat intelligence tooling
- Experience conducting large scale data analysis
- Experience working across the broader security community
$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
What you'll do
- The Security Engineer will track threat clusters and implement countermeasures to protect Meta's infrastructure and employees. They will also work closely with incident responders and improve threat tracking tools.
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What does Meta pay for a Security Engineer - IR Threat Intelligence?
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