Director Software Engineering - Central Security

Responsibilities

• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Compensation

• $271,000/year - $347,000/year; Country: US; Bonus eligible; Equity eligible

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