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Software Engineering Manager - Surface Coverage

Lensa
Indianapolis, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 5/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/17/2026
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Summary

At Cross-Meta Security (X-Sec) our mission is to protect the company, our community, and its data while empowering safe innovation. Within X-Sec, the Detect & Respond (XDR) pillar aims to minimize the harm caused by unauthorized access or inappropriate usage of Meta's systems and data. To do so, we build platforms and services to help us detect, investigate, contain and recover from Security Incidents as early as possible. We focus on both external cyber threats and internal abuse. Surface Coverage (SC) is one of four sub-pillars within XDR, and our vision is to detect 100% of known critical threats across Meta's business - critical surfaces. SC Software engineering team's mission is to develop advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents & response tooling that provides telemetry, prevention, detection, and response capabilities across systems in varied environments. We focus on efficient, scalable and innovative solutions that enable us to effectively monitor system activity, swiftly process alerts, remediate security incidents, and mitigate potential threats.We are seeking an engineering leader with experience supporting a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining critical security infrastructure for the next phase of growth and innovation at Meta. This is a unique opportunity to develop industry-leading security tooling at the scale and speed of one of the largest infrastructure deployments in the world. We work across all parts of the company, from corporate infrastructure to production to external services, interfacing with nearly every organization in the company.

Required Skills

Software Engineering Manager - Surface Coverage Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
  • Participate in technical design and strategy
  • Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
  • Partner with leadership to influence and drive organizational design, contribution and prioritization
  • Lead and guide engineering values to sustain a high performance team
  • Integrate security in a constantly evolving environment where process is fluid and resourceful solutions are the norm
  • Build, cultivate, and maintain relationships with cross-functional partners to enable the team's to effectively and efficiently execute on project work
  • Hire, grow, and build a team capable of achieving our mission
  • Work across partners in Product Management, Data Science, and Data Engineering to design and iterate on metrics and goals related to attack enumeration and detection coverage and validation

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BS/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 10 years of Software Engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management
  • 2 years of hands-on technical management in security software engineering in product-led environments
  • Proven track record of supporting engineering teams
  • Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management
  • Demonstrated experience in working across organizational boundaries to achieve company-wide impact
  • Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs
  • Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Specialization in one or more Security domains, experience with Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and large scale containerized environments is a significant plus
  • Background in security-focused software engineering, designing large scale systems and data pipelines, or in offensive security
  • Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as demonstrated experience in one (or more) areas such as Log and events processing, Incident Management, Detection and/or Response tooling development
  • Broad knowledge across systems design, and detection engineering domains

Public Compensation

$177,000/year to $251,000/year bonus equity benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com

Salary : $177,000 - $251,000

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