Product Security Engineer

Product Security Engineer
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Meta's Product Security team is seeking a passionate hacker who derives purpose in life by revealing potential weaknesses and then crafting creative solutions to eliminate those weaknesses. Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of over two billion people. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the web, mobile, or native-code security expertise necessary to make confident product decisions. Come help us make life hard for the bad guys.
Product Security Engineer Responsibilities
  • Security Reviews: perform manual design and implementation reviews of products and services that make up the Meta ecosystem, like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Portal, and more.
  • Automated Analysis and Secure Frameworks: build automation (static and dynamic analysis) and frameworks with software engineers that enable Meta to scale consistently across all of our products.
  • Developer Guidance: provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities.
  • Bug Bounty: help provide technical guidance to our world class bug bounty program and independent security researchers.
  • Industry Impact: push the industry forward through conference talks and open source projects to contribute broadly to security for the world.
Minimum Qualifications
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in interpreted languages (php, python, ruby). Knowledge of best practice secure code development
  • Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)
  • Experience writing software that enables security processes
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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.

$147,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.


Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
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