Product Security Engineer, Instagram

Meta•San Francisco, CA

1d•$184,000 - $257,000

About The Position

The Instagram Security Ecosystems team is seeking a product-focused security engineer interesting in enabling Instagram product teams to develop features with a focus on security and user safety. You will be relied upon to directly work with Instagram engineers, hardening both product features and our protective frameworks that make life harder for bad actors on the Instagram platform.

Requirements

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in interpreted languages (Python, PHP)
Extensive, proven experience in threat modeling and secure systems design
Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities

Nice To Haves

Product software engineering or product management experience
Experience in security consulting or other leadership-facing security advisory roles
Familiarity with cybersecurity investigations, abuse operations, and/or security incident response
Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)

Responsibilities

Threat Modeling and Security Architecture: Work directly with product managers and technical leads on threat models and security architecture for novel Instagram features or products
Security Reviews: Perform manual design and implementation reviews of web, mobile, and native code
Developer Guidance: Provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities
Automated Analysis and Secure Frameworks: Work with other security teams to improve Instagram's static and dynamic analysis and frameworks to scale coverage
Bug Bounty: Help provide technical guidance to our world class bug bounty program and independent security researchers
Industry Impact: Push the industry forward through conference talks and open source projects to contribute broadly to security for the world