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Security Engineer Intern, IR Threat Intelligence

AT Meta
Meta

Security Engineer Intern, IR Threat Intelligence

London, United Kingdom

Meta Security is looking for a Security Engineer with experience in threat modeling, TTP identification, and detection engineering. You'll work alongside Security Analysts, Software Engineers and Offensive Security Engineers to identify critical assets, assess the top risks, and evaluate and detect potential internal and external attacks against Meta systems. You will be working across engineering teams supporting Production and Corporate systems to develop detection and response automation leveraging both industry-standard and custom detection and response platforms. You'll generate detection ideas and implementations utilizing some of the world's largest datasets and build on top of hyper-scale data pipelines.

Security Engineer Intern, IR Threat Intelligence Responsibilities:

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  • Work in cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents
  • Review security architecture of large-scale custom and commercial systems and independently propose logging, detection and prevention controls
  • Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment
  • Perform analysis against logs from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas
  • Build response workflows and actions that auto-resolve false positives and provide context scaling our ability to investigate
  • Support security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution for internal and external threats
  • Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage
  • Build logging pipelines using our custom datasets and infrastructure
  • Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta's infrastructure and employees
  • Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems and various intelligence feeds
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or a related field
  • Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
  • Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
  • Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
  • Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
  • Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship
  • Experience in Detection & Response Engineering or similar Security Engineering role
  • Experience designing systems used for responding to external and/or insider threats
  • Experience building automations and integrations using SOAR platforms
  • Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or offensive security
  • Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigates suspicious behavior across networks and systems
  • Experience with anomaly detection applicable to the insider threat detection space
  • Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and skills to convert the tracking results to long term countermeasures
  • Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Experience with intelligence-driven threat hunting to spot suspicious activities and identify potential risks, and experience with building notebooks to automate such hunts
  • Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Offensive Security Testing, Detection and/or Response tooling development
About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: a1KDp00000E2L5TMAV
Employment Type: Intern

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Pension
    • Company Equity
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Founder led

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