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Director Software Engineering - Central Security

Meta· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$271k - $347kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Director role leading Meta's Central Security organization, focusing on building automated and autonomous security systems using AI/ML across identity and access management, product security, threat detection, and detection & response. Responsible for multi-site, cross-functional teams, defining long-term technical strategy, and balancing security with operational velocity.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure (production Linux, corporate Windows/Active Directory, third-party SaaS, and public cloud)
  • Lead the development of a credible, adopted model for agent identity and authorization as AI agents act on behalf of people across Meta's infrastructure
  • Build and scale a distributed, multi-disciplinary organization of software engineers, security engineers, and security operations associates across multiple global sites
  • Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and other teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into tradeoffs between security and operational velocity
  • Represent identity and access perspectives to leadership (VPs and C-level executives) advocating for investments and risk decisions
  • Drive measurable reduction in access-related security incidents by addressing root-cause patterns
  • Lead efforts to replace manual access approval and review processes with automated controls at scale
  • Define and enforce access policy supporting regulatory and compliance obligations
  • Develop technical controls for geographic expansion into higher-threat environments
  • Serve as escalation point for urgent and highly confidential identity and access escalations

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on security, identity, or infrastructure systems
  • 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers
  • Track record of building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting, developing, and managing engineers and leaders
  • Experience forming cross-functional partnerships across product, design, and data science to deliver large-scale engineering outcomes
  • Experience reasoning rigorously with metrics and data, with understanding of statistical uncertainty, bias, and ecosystem trade-offs

Skills

Required:Identity and access managementSecurity leadershipData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • + bonus + equity + benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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