Director Software Engineering - Central Security
$271,000 - $347,000 per year
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SENIORITY
Manager
SALARY
$271,000 - $347,000 per year
About the role
- Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, and access management across Meta's infrastructure, spanning production environments (Linux), corporate environments (Windows, Active Directory), third-party SaaS, and public cloud
- Lead the development of a credible, adopted model for agent identity and authorization as AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people across Meta's infrastructure
- Build and scale a distributed, multi-disciplinary organization of software engineers, security engineers, and security operations associates across multiple global sites
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, HR, Legal, and other teams to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-articulated tradeoffs between security and operational velocity
- Represent identity and access perspectives to leadership including VPs and C-level executives (CTO, CISO), advocating for appropriate investments and risk decisions
- Drive measurable reduction in access-related security incidents by closing root-cause patterns rather than individually remediating incidents
- Lead the effort to replace manual access approval and review processes with durable, automated controls at scale
- Define and enforce access policy, supporting Meta's regulatory and compliance obligations
- Develop technical controls that address the unique requirements of geographic expansion into higher-threat environments
- Serve as an escalation point for urgent and highly confidential company escalations related to identity and access
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on security, identity, or infrastructure systems 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing engineering managers
- Track record of building and scaling engineering organizations, including recruiting, developing, and managing the performance of engineers and engineering leaders
- Experience forming cross-functional partnerships across product, design, and data science to deliver large-scale engineering outcomes
- Experience reasoning rigorously with metrics and data, with understanding of statistical uncertainty, bias, and ecosystem trade-offs
- Background in agentic access, AI agent authorization models, or emerging identity paradigms
- Experience leading identity and access management programs for workforces spanning multiple geographies and threat environments
- Experience with highly-scaled distributed systems serving billions of requests
- Track record of automating access controls and reducing manual review burden at scale
- Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements related to identity and access management
- Public Compensation:$271,000/year to $347,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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