Security Engineering Manager, Identity and Access Management

About the Role

Meta's security team is the central engine driving data and systems security at the company, supporting Meta and all of its family of apps. The Engineering Manager on our Access, Tooling, and Operations Management team is a key leadership position within the Security organization responsible for building and driving the access management strategy, tooling, and operations across Meta. We work across all parts of the company, from the corporate infrastructure to production to external services, interfacing with nearly every team in the company.

This Security Engineering Manager, Identity and Access Management role leads a team of security engineers and analysts focused on access management strategy, engineering, and related operational activities. As an engineering manager, you will use your leadership skills, your technical experience, and your knowledge of access management principles and best practices to build successful partnerships within Security and with engineering teams across Meta. You will support and motivate a team that is bold, experienced, and technically skilled. You will be an effective communicator regardless of audience or medium, whether interacting with executives, external regulators, vendors, or the public. You will be explaining complex security issues and describe risks to inspire and influence company-wide decisions. You will be a sound decision-maker and rationalize between difficult choices on technical merit, real world risks, and what is pragmatic for Meta.

Security Engineering Manager, Identity and Access Management Responsibilities

• Support a team of security engineers that build and improve access control systems at Meta.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the engineers on the team.
• Advocate for the team’s technical interests and needs.
• Support a team of engineers to build automated risk reduction and compliance solutions specially focused on Access Management space.
• Serve as an evangelist for the Access Management function and overall collaborative environment, both internally and externally.
• Support, grow, and lead an organization responsible for building services that secure Meta’s infrastructure, services, and data through effective access policies, standards, and controls.
• Work closely with engineering leaders across the company to help them prioritize security issues in their products and drive adoption of the systems the team builds.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics around access controls by mining data analytically and extracting operational insights that drive continuous improvement.
• Help define Meta's global security priorities, with a focus on helping the company manage access to user data.
• Develop relationships and work cross-functionally with many partners across organizations and functions, and as a result, increase the impact of the team’s work.
• Manage the best engineers in the world, including helping to hire and grow the team.
• Manage performance of the team and recognize high performers and support those who are struggling.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, or related field, followed by five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.
• 5+ years of experience building, leading, and managing software or security engineering teams in the Identity & Access Management domain.
• Demonstrated experience working with many cross-functional partners and managing programs that require management team support and buy-in.
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across software engineering and security engineering in collaboration with security operations teams to drive security measures.
• Experience developing full stack products.
• Experience in the IAM domain in a cloud based infrastructure environment.
• Practical experience of SOX, SOC2, NIST, PCI, ISO, and other security regulations.
• Experience in analytical and problem-solving skills, including a basic understanding of data analysis techniques.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Identity and Access Management
• Security Engineering
• Leadership
• Risk Management
• Access Control
• Compliance
• Data Analysis
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• IAM Systems
• Infrastructure Security