Meta
Cloud Security Engineer
Found: January 10, 2026
This role is based in Bellevue, WA, with additional locations available.
Compensation:
$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities:
- Design, prototype, and implement AI-driven security systems and tools to protect Meta’s products and internal infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain security-focused code, libraries, and frameworks for use by Security Engineers, Analysts, and engineering teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, security solutions aligned with company objectives.
- Rapidly experiment with and iterate on specialized security technologies, leveraging AI to address emerging threats and requirements.
- Apply deep security expertise to solve complex challenges, mitigate risks, and mentor other engineers in advanced security domains.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing security systems, tools, or frameworks.
- Extensive knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Proficiency in coding with experience in languages such as Python, C/C++, Go, or equivalent.
- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on security solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience on securing cloud deployments, IAC (Infrastructure as Code) deployments for cloud (terraform).
- Experience addressing security problems by building scalable engineering solutions.
- Experience influencing software engineers building security products.
- Experience creating metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency.
- Experience making contributions to the security or privacy community (public research, OSS, blogging, presentations, etc.).