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Security Engineer – Investigations
| Company | Meta |
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| Location | Menlo Park, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $177000 – $251000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8 + years of work experience in cyber security, private sector security investigations and intelligence, government, and/or intelligence
- 5 + years of experience working with Python, PHP or similar scripting languages
- 2 + years experience as technical lead or team lead in an adversarial and/or investigative space with experience driving team strategic direction
- Proven experience conducting large scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools such as Maltego, Palantir, Tableau, etc
- Track record of proficient communication and presenting technical findings
- Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats
- Experience prioritizing and executing with minimal direction or oversight
- Experience in fast-paced environments where priorities shift and change
- A combination of investigative skills and engineering skills
- Experience working with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones
Responsibilities
- Engage cross-functionally with other teams to develop shared taxonomy, implement effective strategies to prevent and disrupt abuse at scale and represent i3 across the problem space
- Assist in the development of the team’s long-term strategy to improve tactics, discoverability of threats, and enhance investigative efficiencies
- Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, and third party private intelligence
- Investigate complex cases to understand how abuse is occurring and implement enforcement strategies to mitigate and/or detect harm
- Identify areas to automate investigative tooling and tradecraft
- Work through others to ensure successful implementation beyond the immediate team
- Analyze and interpret large datasets to advance investigations, quantify trends or support findings
- Address sensitive content issues, including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other objectionable material
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working or managing projects that have enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross functional stakeholders
- Subject matter expertise with nation state actors, state-sponsored threat actor campaigns, influence operations or cyber-espionage
- Familiarity with sophisticated cyber threats
- BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field
- Experience leading and empowering teammates
- Experience contributing to the security community (open source, academic research, industry research, blogs, presentations, etc.)
