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# Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) - Central Security

- **Company:** The Meta Game, Inc.
- **Location:** Lincoln, NE, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $219,000.0 - $301,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Commercial Software, Cloud Services, Scripting, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations, Service Stack, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/1F51A32A0F7B44DAA2C75CBD53B7DA3B/job/

## About the Role

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Technical Leadership) - Central Security Responsibilities:

 1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
 2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
 3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies., 9. 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
 10. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
 11. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
 12. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
 13. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
 14. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
 15. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts, 16. Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, and scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, or Hack
 17. 8+ years relevant experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
 18. Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
 19. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
 20. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
 21. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
 22. Demonstrated curiosity about security - e.g., a track record of reasoning about failure modes, abuse cases, or threat models in systems you've built, without requiring prior formal security experience

## Description

You'll be joining Central Security, Meta's first line of defense technology team, managing risk across critical security domains. You'll work within a cross-functional team of engineers, analysts, product managers and program managers, collaborating closely with colleagues across Product, Infrastructure and Enterprise Engineering. You will develop automated and autonomous security systems using AI/ML across high-impact the product security domains. The organization operates at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and enterprise security, helping shape how Meta approaches security across our entire technology stack, from custom-built systems to commercial software such as cloud services, and increasingly sophisticated AI/ML systems., 4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.

 5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.
 6. Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
 7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
 8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.