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Product Security Engineer

Meta • Menlo Park, CA 94025 • Posted 8 days ago

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In-person • Full-time • $105,000-$173,000/yr • Mid Level

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Meta's Product Security team is seeking a passionate hacker to reveal potential weaknesses and craft creative solutions to eliminate those weaknesses. The role involves providing engineering and product teams with mobile security expertise, exploring a wide range of problem spaces across various operating systems, and engaging directly with product teams to analyze application code and detect complex vulnerabilities. The goal is to protect the security and privacy of over two billion people through security initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Perform manual design and implementation reviews of products and services that make up the Meta ecosystem, like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Portal, and more.
  • Provide guidance and education to developers to prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities.
  • Build automation (static and dynamic analysis) and frameworks with software engineers to enable Meta to scale consistently across all of our products.

Qualifications

Required

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in mobile relevant languages (Java, Objective-C). Knowledge of best practice secure code development
  • Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities

Preferred

  • Experience writing software that enables security processes
  • Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)

Full Job Description

**Summary:**

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 mobile security expertise necessary to make confident product decisions.As a Mobile Security Engineer at Meta, you will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of problem spaces working on multiple tech stacks across Android, iOS, and custom operating systems and hardware. You will engage directly with product teams to analyze application code and detect complex vulnerabilities, and assist them in mitigating these risks. You will develop frameworks and tools to perform automated detection of vulnerabilities and scale the impact of individuals. Come help us make life hard for the bad guys.

**Required Skills:**

Product Security Engineer Responsibilities:

1. 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.

2. Developer Guidance: provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities.

3. 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.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

4. B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

5. 2+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in mobile relevant languages (Java, Objective-C). Knowledge of best practice secure code development

6. Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

7. Experience writing software that enables security processes

8. Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)

**Public Compensation:**

$105,000/year to $173,000/year + bonus + equity + 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.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.