Meta Security Engineer jobs
Pays like big tech, but the 2026 layoffs hit security and hiring is tight.
The Product Security Engineer role
Meta security engineers find and fix vulnerabilities across its apps and infrastructure through security assessments, threat modeling, code review and tooling, and they are expected to write real code. Specialties span product security, offensive and red team, detection and response, vulnerability management and Applied AI security. 2026 has been a contraction year, so openings are fewer and more selective than the posted pay bands suggest.
Meta does not publish security headcount; security engineers sit on the E3–E9 IC ladder with named areas including Product Security, Offensive Security and Red Team Operations, Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management and a newer Applied AI security track.
Meta security engineer salary
Base: the posted US range on Meta’s Product Security Engineer req (Menlo Park, 5+ years; posted Sep 21, 2026), $154,000–$217,000 plus bonus and equity — the same band appears on Security Engineer, Applied AI; the posting states no IC level. Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi publishes no per-level percentile for Meta’s security title (E4 average total is about $286k on 13 submissions).
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