Summary:

Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You’ll work alongside Security Analysts, Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate and detect potential internal and external attacks against Meta systems. You will be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You’ll generate detection ideas and implementations utilizing some of the world’s largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Required Skills:

Security Engineer Intern, Detection & Response Responsibilities:

1. Work in cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents

2. Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently propose logging, detection and prevention controls

3. Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment

4. Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas

5. Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our ability to investigate

6. Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution for internal and external threats

7. Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage

8. Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure

9. Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees

10. Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems and various intelligence feeds

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

11. Must be in the process of obtaining a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

12. Experience analyzing network and host-based security events

13. Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols

14. Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux

15. Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages

16. Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures

17. Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

18. Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship

19. Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role

20. Experience designing systems used for responding to external and/or insider threats

21. Experience building automations and integrations using SOAR platforms

22. Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive security

23. Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigates suspicious behavior across networks and systems

24. Experience with anomaly detection applicable to the insider threat detection space

25. Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and skills to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures

26. Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework

27. Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting to spot suspicious activities and identify potential risks, and experience with building notebooks to automate such hunts

28. Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling development

Public Compensation:

$7,313/month to $11,293/month + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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