Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team Operations Group

Meta's Security team is looking for an Offensive Security Engineer that can deliver technical expertise for our Red Team Operations Group (RTOG) and execute tactical, offensive assessments across our environments.RTOG is responsible for running full-scope and objective-based Red Team operations across all of Meta's platforms, technologies, and infrastructure, often requiring creative and bespoke offensive security. By exploring the "unknown unknowns", RTOG provides the security organization a means of risk-based prioritization, improving the company's defensive posture as a result.Candidates should have extensive experience across the attack lifecycle and a demonstrated capacity for designing and execution of Red Team operations. They are expected to scope, prepare, deliver, and help document objective-oriented assessments that positively benefit the overall security posture of the organization. This role requires a desire to help drive fixes with partners from the greater security organization after engagement execution, both as short-term mitigations and long-term improvements.

Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team Operations Group Responsibilities:

• Execute Red Team operations targeting both traditional and bespoke environments across Meta, evading preventions, detections, and response.
• Perform research to identify new ways of achieving your mission, and then develop and test them for use on an operation.
• Incorporate Threat Intelligence research to track APT trends and recreate their Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for operations and other offensive security testing.
• Work with Incident Response, Product Security, and other security partners to align remediation efforts that best protect the company.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in Red Team Operations to make tradeoffs in ambiguous situations by understanding the end-goal and propose concrete paths forward.
• Experience developing reports and deliverables that provide stakeholders with meaningful information to address security issues, and when necessary, translating technical concepts into language that is understood by broad technical and non-technical audiences.
• 3+ years of experience running offensive security assessments, 2+ years of full-scope Red Team operations.
• Experience in owning, scoping, developing, and executing phases of Red Team Operations.
• Experience with both outside-in and assumed breach operations.
• Experience in tailored reconnaissance, weaponization, exploitation and lateral movement.
• Knowledge and understanding of attack surfaces for enterprise systems and services.
• Experience adapting open source and COTS offensive tooling to evade EDR/AV or otherwise adjust to a target environment.
• Knowledge of server (Linux, Windows) and client (Windows, macOS, Linux) operating systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of how offensive security is used to improve security.
• Experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Golang, Python, PHP, Hack, C, C++, Rust, Lua, Swift, or Java.

Preferred Qualifications:

• An understanding of the ideas behind “designing for response” and how to make the most of Red Team Operations’ components in the greater scheme of security organization needs.
• Experience in leading and owning Red Team Operations end-to-end and tasking other Red Team operators.
• 4+ years of experience executing Red Team operations.
• Experience developing custom tools existing tools to support offensive security teams.
• Knowledge of operational security across all phases of a Red Team operation, from infrastructure acquisition to noise level for specific TTPs, and how to de-risk them.
• Experience with Red Team operations in non-traditional environments.
• Experience setting up automated virtualized and test environments emulating the target environments.
• Experience working closely with defenders to identify and fix problems.

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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