Product Security Engineer
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Job Description
Product Security Engineer
Meta's Product Security team is seeking a security engineer with demonstrated experience revealing potential weaknesses and then crafting creative solutions to eliminate those weaknesses. Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of over two billion people. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the web, mobile, or native-code security expertise necessary to make product decisions. Come help us make life hard for the bad guys.
Responsibilities
- Security Reviews: perform manual design and implementation reviews of products and services that make up the Meta ecosystem, like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Portal, and more
- Developer Guidance: provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities
- Automated Analysis and Secure Frameworks: build automation (static and dynamic analysis) and frameworks with software engineers that enable Meta to scale consistently across all of our products
Minimum Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in interpreted languages. Knowledge of best practice secure code development
- Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities
- Knowledge of common exploit mitigations and how they work
- Coding and scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
Preferred Qualifications
- Product software engineering or product management experience
- Experience in security consulting or other leadership-facing security advisory roles
- Familiarity with cybersecurity investigations, abuse operations, and/or security incident response
- Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary for this Product Security Engineer role ranges from $154,000/year to $217,000/year, along with bonus, equity, and benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Meta offers comprehensive benefits in addition to base compensation.
Key skills/competency
- Security Engineering
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Web Security
- Mobile Security
- Native Code Security
- Static Analysis
- Dynamic Analysis
- Secure Frameworks
- Exploit Mitigation
- Incident Response
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