LINCS Security Engineer

Meta•DeKalb, IL

5h•$135,000 - $191,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking an experienced Physical Security Engineer to join its security team within the Infrastructure Data Center (IDC) organization as an individual contributor. The role manages physical and logical security risks across Meta’s global infrastructure and operations, including data centers, edge, backbone, subsea, and supply chain. The team designs, implements, and maintains physical and logical security systems to support business continuity, protect customer data, and ensure compliance with Meta security policies and regulatory requirements. The engineer will own and improve physical security and compliance programs across infrastructure, initially focusing on owned facilities and extending to leased, cloud, edge, and subsea environments as programs mature. The role also covers physical access management, security-control assessment, security solution engineering across multiple domains, and integration of security throughout the data center lifecycle. The listed salary range is $135,000 to $191,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of experience in physical security design and infrastructure security, with demonstrated ownership of security programs in large-scale network environments.
Experience working across multiple security domains, such as physical security and coordination with network, logical, and cybersecurity teams.
Experience establishing, scaling, and maturing physical security projects and programs.
Experience supporting physical security for large-scale and/or mission-critical infrastructure and operations.
Basic understanding of network engineering fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, network segmentation, authentication and authorization, secure remote access, and physical/logical security dependencies.

Nice To Haves

Experience working directly in physical security design and/or network security design for hyperscale data center programs or other large-scale mission-critical infrastructure.
CPP, PSP, CISSP, or other relevant industry certifications.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Background in access controls, video surveillance, intrusion detection, physical security investigations, and incident response.
Advanced degree in security management, information security, engineering, or a related technical field.
Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Experience assessing and modifying data center designs and operations to meet security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Experience working on or managing projects with enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization, cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience managing, executing, and delivering multiple complex projects and programs while prioritizing by impact, deadlines, and stakeholder needs.
Experience implementing and improving access management programs.

Responsibilities

Manage security risk across logical and physical security domains.
Assess security risks and communicate threats and vulnerabilities to inform business decisions and strategy.
Own the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of physical security and compliance programs across Meta infrastructure, beginning with owned facilities and extending to leased, cloud, edge, and subsea environments as programs mature.
Manage physical access across owned and leased infrastructure, including quarterly access reviews and access automation.
Help build oversight capability for leased and cloud-delegated security, including recurring service-level agreement validation and enforcement of contracted terms.
Assess and report on security-control effectiveness to inform security strategy, manage risk, and enable business operations.
Engineer security solutions across physical, cyber, logical, and network domains to protect Meta infrastructure at scale.
Develop and operationalize security guidance, including standards, guidelines, and playbooks, that align corporate policy, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
Integrate security solutions throughout the data center lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, operations, refresh, and decommissioning.