Security Analyst, Whitehat

  • Meta
  • 23/09/2022
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Facebook's bug bounty program is seeking a skilled and motivated security analyst to help us secure close to 3 billion users You will be responsible for communicating with and validating security vulnerabilities from a community of security researchers around the globe. You will gain insights of Meta's codebase to understand the root cause of each vulnerability, and have the opportunity to play a key role in one of the largest bug bounty programs in the world.

Security Analyst, Whitehat Responsibilities:
  • Analyze, assess, and respond to various security vulnerabilities we receive as part of our Whitehat program.
  • Follow up with researchers on unclear reports.
  • Understand the root cause of security vulnerabilities to help the product team fix them.
  • Play an active role in continuing to grow and develop the bug bounty program and other internal security and privacy initiatives.
  • Own expansions to the program, including private programs.
  • Own critical submissions to resolution - liaise a plan with product teams, advise on the right mitigation strategy.
  • Implement bug fixes and feature enhancements to the program's public and internal code base.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • Good communication skills.
  • Familiarity with web security issues (e.g. OWASP top 10).
  • Ability to follow bug reports, reproduce and triage them.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience writing in scripting languages and willingness to learn new languages.
  • Participation in bug bounty programs (not necessarily Facebook's bug bounty program).
  • 2+ years of experience analyzing source code to find security vulnerabilities.
  • Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).