Security Engineer Investigator, Cybercrime

Summary
The Integrity Investigations and Intelligence organization is dedicated to protecting the users of Meta's family of applications (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus) from the worst kinds of threats we experience. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging, complicated, and high-visibility security risks the company is facing. The impact of your work will be substantial, as outcomes could affect the billions of people who use our products. The ideal candidate will be an innovative self-starter, who is motivated by our mission, is results-driven, and will be able to extract, assimilate, and correlate a wide variety of data in order to surface and disrupt sophisticated actors.We are seeking an experienced investigator to detect and understand financially motivated bad actors, investigate complex threats to our business and our users, advance investigative methods, and use innovative approaches to protecting people and businesses from harm. The candidate must be able to use code to automate investigative actions and have a proficiency in scripting languages such as PHP or Python.
Required Skills
Security Engineer Investigator, Cybercrime Responsibilities:

• Proactively hunt for and understand threats and undetected abuse by leveraging large internal datasets, open-source intelligence, and third party private intelligence.
• Proactively surface gaps in our systems used to detect, measure, or enforce against harm and abuse.
• Investigate complex cases to understand in granular detail how abuse is occurring. Identify and implement appropriate enforcement strategies to mitigate harm both in the current case and from similar forward-looking abuse.
• Identify effective strategies to prevent or disrupt abuse at scale. Consult on the design of countermeasures to effect those strategies.
• Respond to high priority escalations or incidents of abuse by sophisticated or complex actors evading system protections.
• Improve the efficiency of everyday tasks and actions conducted during investigations and team processes.
• Take a leadership role in suggesting, prototyping, and teaching novel investigative techniques.

Minimum Qualification
Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience working with Python, PHP or similar scripting languages.
• 5+ years work experience in a cyber security, security investigations, trust & safety, or threat intelligence investigations role.
• Experience conducting large scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools such as sql, jupyter notebooks, etc.
• Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats such as financial scams, ad fraud and abuse, business compromise, or botnets.

Preferred Qualification
Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field
• Background and expertise in one or many of the following areas: compromised accounts, scams, deception, scripting abuse, and/or abusive ads/businesses.
• Experience with open source investigation techniques and familiarity with a variety of internet research tools
• Experience working with teams spanning multiple locations/time zones
• Regional knowledge and/or language skills

EOE
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.