Product Security Engineer - Team Lead

Meta

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience with enterprise-scale infrastructure software
  • 8+ years of coding experience in Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C/C++, or similar languages
  • Proven track record in solving infrastructure security challenges across corporate boundaries
  • Experience with efficiency and stability improvements of distributed systems
  • Ownership of a security component, feature, or system

Responsibilities

  • Author code and conduct reviews in various programming languages
  • Influence organizational strategy and align teams on multi-year security roadmaps
  • Design and develop scalable security products and systems
  • Identify and prioritize security maturity improvements at Meta
  • Collaborate with teams to address security issues proactively
  • Shift security practices left in the development workflow to prevent issues
  • Establish ownership and understanding of specific security systems

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of product development and security
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Access to professional development opportunities related to AI and security
  • Engagement in cutting-edge security technology and methodologies
  • Flexible work conditions that adapt to a changing business environment
Full Job Description
Product Security is looking for Security Engineers to provide technical leadership across multiple large problem spaces (web security, AI security). You will be working closely with product teams and partner security organizations to define strategy, build security tooling, and ship secure-by-design product functionality for our agentic products and family of apps.

Responsibilities

Author code and conduct code reviews in: Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C/C++ (or similar language)
• Influence and align the organization's vision and strategy, while engaging our teams to develop and deliver specific, multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects. Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of this work within a changing business environment
• Conceive, design, and develop scalable, reliable security products, systems and/or frameworks. Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of the existing security systems and frameworks
• Identify and prioritize areas of improvement to the security maturity across Meta. Improve the security maturity at scale by directly designing, implementing, and building solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security maturity work is being prioritized and addressed
• Eliminate classes of security problems by shifting the detection and preventions left into the development workflow. Provide architectural, design, and threat-based guidance to software development teams to improve the security maturity before code is written
• Establish self as an owner of a particular security system with end-to-end understanding

Minimum Qualifications
• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years work experience building and securing enterprise-scale infrastructure software and services
• 8+ years work experience authoring code in Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C/C++ (or similar language)
• Experience fixing infrastructure security problems across broad corporate boundaries using influence and relationships
• Experience in designing, analyzing, improving efficiency, scalability, and stability distributed systems and conducting threat model assessment of infrastructure software and services
• Experience owning a particular component, feature or system

Preferred Qualifications
• Broad knowledge of the security domain, which might include security investigations, incident management, digital forensics, offensive security, vulnerability management, product security, and much more
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience making contributions to the security or privacy community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)

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