Requirements

Currently has, or is in the process, of obtaining a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or 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
Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship

Nice to Haves

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

Triage security alerts and support incident response in a cross-functional environment, driving incident resolution for internal and external threats.
Work on cross-functional projects to improve our capabilities to effectively detect and respond to security incidents.
Analyze and hunt for attacker techniques (through log analysis from various sources such as host and network logs) to identify potential threats and detection ideas.
Develop actions and workflows in our automation systems to improve the alert triage process (Python, SQL).
Perform TTP-based Threat Modeling for a wide variety of assets including endpoints, mobile, servers, internal services, public & private cloud environments and networking equipment.
Design and implement attack testing automation to validate detection coverage.
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.

This internship offers a wealth of challenging and technically stimulating security problems.
Opportunity to work with industry-standard solutions as well as custom in-house tooling and datasets.
Gain hands-on experience with tracking and responding to threats targeting Meta’s employees and infrastructure.
Joining teams like Security Operations - Threat Intelligence and Security Operations - Incident Response.