Offensive Security Engineer, Purple Team

Meta's Security team is looking for an Offensive Security Engineer that can deliver technical expertise for our Offensive Security Purple Team. This individual should have extensive experience across the attack lifecycle and a demonstrated capacity to lead, design, and execute collaborative efforts with partners to test the effectiveness of defenses in place for a target. Candidates are expected to scope, prepare, and deliver technology-oriented assessments that positively benefit the overall security posture of the organization. This role requires a desire to help drive fixes after testing cycles, both as short-term mitigations and long-term improvements.

Offensive Security Engineer, Purple Team Responsibilities:

• Develop custom tools to support team engagements and partners.
• Design, scope, and lead Purple Team Engagements focused on working with partners to execute relevant Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures to provide information used to harden protections.
• Automate the creation of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, portions of engagements, and other offensive security work to inform and drive our engagements.
• Incorporate Threat Intelligence research to track APT trends and help our partners test their environments against new and emerging threats.
• Work with Incident Response, Product Security, and other security partners to align remediation efforts that best protect the company.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of server (Linux, Windows) and client (Windows, macOS, Linux) operating systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of attack surfaces for enterprise systems and services.
• 4+ years of experience developing custom tools to support offensive security teams.
• Experience working closely with defenders to identify and fix problems.
• 4+ years of experience Red Teaming, Penetration Testing, and/or Cyber Threat Hunting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience performing closed source and code assisted assessments.
• Experience with complex, multi-stage, multi-person engagements for internal partners.
• Experience building infrastructure using DevOps technologies and concepts to support offensive security teams.
• Background in intrusion detection, security investigations, and incident response.
• Experience “threat hunting”, i.e. using threat intel to proactively and iteratively investigate these potential risks and finding suspicious behavior in the network.

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.

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