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Detection & Response Security Engineer, Intern (Summer 2027)

Meta· Technical Security
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New York, NY$7.3k/mo - $11.3k/moInternPosted 4d ago

About the role

Security Engineer Intern position focusing on threat modeling, detection engineering, and automated detection/response across Meta systems. Summer 2027 start date with cross-functional collaboration and exposure to large-scale data pipelines and detection platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Work in cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents
  • Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently propose logging, detection and prevention controls
  • Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment
  • Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas
  • Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our ability to investigate
  • Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution for internal and external threats
  • Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage
  • Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure
  • Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta’s infrastructure and employees
  • Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems and various intelligence feeds

Qualifications

  • Must be in the process of obtaining a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
  • Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
  • Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
  • Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
  • Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:Threat modelingLog analysisDetection engineeringIncident response
Nice to have:Automation & tooling
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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