Director, Security Engineering - i3E

Meta•Washington, DC

5d•$271,000 - $347,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking an experienced security engineering leader to lead the Integrity Investigations, Intelligence, and Events organization (i3E). The organization protects people using Meta’s products from serious threat actors that cause real-world harm. It investigates complex adversarial behavior, turns investigative insights into durable defenses, and works across product, engineering, policy, legal, and public affairs to deter harmful activity. Threat areas include fraud and scams, human exploitation and youth safety, dangerous organizations, nation-state threats, compromise, and abuse of generative AI. The Director will lead security engineer and security analyst investigators organized into pods across several harm domains. The role owns the strategy for investigating adversarial threats at scale, choosing what to investigate, converting findings into enforcement and product defenses, and measuring whether the work reduces harm. The Director is accountable for organizational capability and resilience, including developing leaders and investigative experts. The role also shapes investigative practice across Meta, influences cross-functional roadmaps and strategic investments, and leads an AI-native redesign of investigative work. The role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content, including child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, offensive or derogatory language, and other potentially disturbing material.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in security, intelligence, investigations, or a closely related technical domain, including hands-on technical depth.
8+ years of people management experience, including managing and developing managers and leading distributed teams across sites and time zones.
Demonstrated track record of attracting talent and scaling and developing high-performing teams and leaders.
Strategic thinking and a track record of transforming both how an organization works and what it delivers.
Experience making data-driven decisions and clarifying ambiguous problems where established principles do not fully apply.
Experience collaborating with and influencing cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, policy, legal, and public affairs.
Experience developing multi-source, evidence-based findings and communicating them to senior and executive audiences.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize and redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt and context engineering or agent orchestration, and keeping current with emerging AI technologies.
Knowledge of or experience across several areas including fraud and financial threats, human exploitation, youth safety, terrorist and hate organizations, transnational criminal organizations, state-sponsored threat actors, influence operations, account compromise, or GenAI abuse.
Experience building or leading intelligence or investigative capabilities, including tradecraft development and investigative tooling.
Experience in crisis management or incident response environments.
Experience working with diverse communities and global teams.
MS or equivalent experience in a technical discipline, intelligence studies, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Provide organizational leadership to a multi-pod investigations organization spanning several harm domains and set a vision connecting investigative work to measurable harm reduction.
Own the organization’s investigations strategy and roadmap, ensuring prioritization, resourcing, and delivery in a changing threat and business environment.
Hire, coach, and develop managers and technical leads; build leadership and succession depth.
Drive the organization’s AI-native transformation by redesigning investigative workflows around AI, setting standards for responsible use, and measuring gains in throughput and quality.
Define and own organizational metrics and operating cadence, ensuring leaders measure appropriate outcomes and track team health alongside output.
Partner with and influence cross-functional leaders across product, engineering, data science, policy, legal, communications, and public affairs to turn findings into enforcement, product changes, and external communication.
Represent i3E and its work to senior leadership and, as needed, external stakeholders; advocate for the organization’s priorities on partner roadmaps.
Lead the organization’s response posture for high-severity, time-compressed escalations.
Participate as a leadership-team member in cross-cutting strategic, operational, and people initiatives.
Handle exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content, including images, videos, writings, offensive or derogatory language, child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, and animal abuse.