Security Analyst: Anti-Scraping Investigator Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,IT/Tech

Summary

Are you interested in solving complex problems that are geared towards improving the privacy of people using Meta’s family of apps? Do you have an adversarial mindset and are excited about investigating and analyzing potential threats? Come join us at Meta! Meta is seeking a Security Analyst to support the Anti‑Scraping organization, with experience investigating and analyzing adversarial behavior and using intelligence to drive decision making;

knowledge of privacy expectations and regulations; and, a track record of technical success. Meta is looking for someone who loves reimagining what’s possible when it comes to detecting, researching, and disrupting attackers by investigating entities and analyzing data to uncover patterns of automated abuse. The team provides actionable insights upstream and works with our engineering teams to constantly implement solutions at scale through better automation strategies to make the internet a safer place for all.

Candidates for this team must demonstrate a focus on action and an aptitude for identifying patterns within complex data, making rapid decisions, and adapting quickly based on outcomes. Successful applicants typically have a background in a quantitative field coupled with expertise in IT security, including bot detection/mitigation and web scraping. The role requires experience working with large datasets and proven proficiency in data‑driven decision‑making.

Individuals should be results‑oriented, self‑motivated, and have a track record of using analytics to reduce platform abuse and enhance user experience.

Required Skills Anti‑Scraping Investigator Responsibilities

Discover, detect, investigate, and respond to anti‑scraping attacks targeting Meta’s products, including threat actor attribution and analysis. Document findings in detailed, concise, and comprehensive reports

Develop and execute technical solutions to proactively identify and mitigate scraping risks

Manage multiple simultaneous investigations, contribute to scaling the team, growing and supporting other investigators, and drive tooling and investigative technique improvements

Proactively look for currently undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open‑source intelligence, and cyber threat intelligence

Refine and track operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to measure the effectiveness of anti‑scraping efforts

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams—including security engineers, analysts, policy, legal, and product partners—to address privacy and abuse challenges

Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders to maximize the impact of anti‑scraping initiatives

Stay current on emerging scraping tactics, techniques, and procedures, and share insights with the broader security organization

Drive and lead exploration of the scraping ecosystem, understand the scraping‑enabled business models, and the most significant risks and harms of scraping to users

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Cyber Security or related field or equivalent technical work experience

5+ years of investigative experience conducting technical and non‑technical investigations of online threats and abuse

3+ years experience with complex SQL queries to drive analysis and insights

3+ years experience in leveraging intelligence in driving investigative and/or technical decision making

3+ years experience conducting OSINT and attribution investigations

Experience with network analysis

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with all source intelligence analysis to drive decision making

Experience with, and exposure to, Linux/Unix environment, PHP, Python, Java, or other programming/scripting languages, TCP/IP protocol stack, and a variety of operating systems

Experience applying data analytics to security risk analysis and investigations

Adversarial experience and understanding how threat actors manifest on the internet

Experience summarizing and communicating technical data to a non‑technical audience

Public Compensation

$137,000/year to $196,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry

Internet

Equal Opportunity

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