Threat Investigator- Youth Safety, i3E

Meta•Washington, DC

About The Position

The Integrity, Investigations, Intelligence and Events (i3E) teams at Meta are dedicated to protecting the users of our family of applications (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus) from a multitude of threats including: criminal organizations, human trafficking and exploitation, and scams/fraud. We are seeking a security analyst - threat investigator to investigate sophisticated threat actors, advance investigative methods, automate and mature team processes through tooling, and use innovative approaches to protecting people from offline harm. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging, complicated, and high-visibility risks the company is facing. We are seeking an experienced security analyst to help drive our understanding and mitigation of child sexual abuse and exploitation on our family of apps. In addition to investigating complex threats, the ideal candidate will have an eye towards advancing investigative methods, and using innovative research approaches to prevent harm to children on our platforms. The ideal candidate will be someone with experience of solving complex problems and embracing ambiguity to drive novel and impactful solutions, who is motivated by our mission and will be able to extract, assimilate, and correlate a wide variety of data in order to surface, analyze, and disrupt threat actors across multiple spaces.

Requirements

2+ years work experience performing security investigations in government, intelligence, cyber security, journalism and/or private sector organizations
Subject matter expertise or prior work experience in child safety based laws or policies (i.e intelligence, law enforcement, legal analysis, or NGO)
Experience with open source investigation techniques and familiarity with a variety of internet research tools
Experience leveraging SQL, OSINT, and network security concepts in an investigative context
Adept at developing multi-source, evidence-based findings and communicating them to varied audiences
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity or related field or equivalent work experience in information security

Nice To Haves

Experience conducting large scale data analysis and utilizing big data tools such as Jupyter Notebook, Maltego, Palantir, etc
Experience working on high-impact threats under compressed timelines
Experience working or managing projects that have enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross functional stakeholders
Experience working with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones

Responsibilities

Investigate complex child sexual exploitation operations to understand how abuse manifests on Meta’s platforms and the wider information ecosystem
Lead a portfolio of investigative research to include identifying abuse trends, understanding adversarial behavior, and designing forward-looking enforcement strategies to mitigate harm
Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data sets, open-source intelligence, and third-party private intelligence
Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to advance investigations, quantify trends and support findings with clear, concise evidence
Apply analytical rigor to investigations, analysis, and programs while looking for strategic improvement opportunities
This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other potential objectionable material, i.e. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing