LINCS Security Engineer

Meta is seeking an experienced LINCS Security Engineer to serve as an individual contributor, responsible for managing physical and logical security risk across a rapidly scaling global infrastructure footprint. The role covers the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of physical access management, security programs, and security controls from data center planning through end-of-life.

Location

Houston, TX (onsite)

Compensation

USD 135,000 - 191,000 per year

Experience Level

7+ years of relevant experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Manage security risk across both logical and physical security domains.
• Evaluate security risks and communicate threat and vulnerability information to support business decision-making and strategy.
• Own the implementation, ongoing maintenance, and continuous improvement of physical security and compliance programs across Meta infrastructure, starting with owned facilities and expanding to leased, cloud, edge, and subsea as the programs mature.
• Run physical access management for owned and leased infrastructure, including quarterly access reviews and access automation.
• Build and mature a net-new capability for oversight of leased and cloud-delegated security, including recurring service level agreement validation and enforcement of violations.
• Assess and report on the effectiveness of security controls to inform security strategy, security risk management, and business operations.
• Engineer security solutions across physical, cyber, logical, and network domains to protect infrastructure at scale.
• Develop and operationalize security guidance (standards, guidelines, and playbooks) that translates corporate policy, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements into a unified approach.
• Integrate security solutions across the full data center lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, operations, refresh, and decommissioning.

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in physical security design and infrastructure security, including demonstrated ownership of security programs in large-scale network environments.
• Experience working across multiple security domains, including physical security and coordination with network, logical, and cybersecurity teams.
• Experience establishing, scaling, and maturing physical security projects and programs.
• Experience supporting physical security for large-scale and/or mission-critical infrastructure and operations.
• Basic understanding of network engineering fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, network segmentation, authentication/authorization, secure remote access, and physical/logical security dependencies.
• Education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Technologies

• TCP/IP
• routing
• network segmentation
• authentication/authorization
• secure remote access
• SOC 2
• ISO 27001

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in physical security design and/or network security design for hyperscale data center programs or other large-scale mission-critical infrastructure.
• CPP, PSP, CISSP, or other relevant industry certifications.
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration, along with staying current on emerging AI technologies.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
• Background in access controls, video surveillance, intrusion detection, physical security investigations, and incident response.
• An advanced degree in security management, information security, engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, including efficiency gains and quality improvements.
• Experience assessing and modifying data center designs and operations to meet security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Experience working on or managing projects with enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.
• Experience managing and delivering multiple complex projects and programs by prioritizing based on impact, deadlines, and stakeholder needs.
• Experience implementing and improving access management programs.

Benefits

• bonus
• equity
• benefits
• Health insurance
• 401k match