Security Engineer Intern, IR Threat Intelligence

Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer Intern with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You'll work alongside Security Analysts, Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess top risks, and evaluate and detect potential internal and external attacks against Meta systems. You'll be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You'll generate detection ideas and implementations utilizing some of the world's largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Work on cross-functional projects to improve capabilities for detecting and responding to security incidents
• Review security architecture of large-scale systems and propose logging, detection, and prevention controls
• Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for various assets
• Analyze logs to identify potential threats and detection ideas
• Build response workflows and actions to auto-resolve false positives
• Support security incident response and drive incident resolution
• Design and implement attack testing automation
• Build logging pipelines using custom datasets and infrastructure
• Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta's infrastructure and employees
• Improve tooling for threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program (Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related field)
• Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
• Knowledge of networking technologies, operating systems, and file systems
• Coding/scripting experience in one or more general-purpose languages
• Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Intent to return to full-time degree program after internship
• Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar role
• Experience designing systems for responding to external/insider threats
• Experience with SOAR platforms, threat hunting, and anomaly detection
• Familiarity with threat modeling frameworks and intelligence-driven threat hunting
• Broad knowledge across the Security domain with deep focus in specific areas

Meta is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs.