Director, Software Engineering, Risk

London, UK Until 9/18/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted July 20, 2026 Last posted July 20, 2026
Job description

Description

Meta’s Product Risk & Compliance teams are at the forefront of embedding privacy, integrity, and regulatory compliance into the company’s most critical products and systems. We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our Risk teams, which will put you right at the heart of some of the company’s most important investments and challenges. Our teams work horizontally across the whole company, identifying emerging patterns and creating solutions for controls that allow the company to move fast, turning Meta’s compliance strategy into a competitive advantage. Your team’s work will range from working on company-wide responses to new laws, through supporting product teams across Meta on both technical strategy, to building centralized technology systems that allow Meta products to be compliant-by-design in code. You’ll influence technical decision making and company strategy as well as driving prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers Drive strategy for company trajectory-altering problems, managing relationships with executive leadership and coordinating execution plans with partner orgs, ensuring we meet legal and regulatory commitments while optimizing for company efficiency. Provide both technical and organizational leadership Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering efforts Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, innovation Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management Embrace a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are operationalized at a very fast pace.

Qualifications

Significant technical industry experience Extensive management experience Graduate degree preferred
About this role

Summary

Lead and manage software engineering teams for risk and compliance at Meta.

Job title

Director, Software Engineering, Risk

Experience level

senior level

Industry

software

Location requirements

London, UK; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

leadershipmanagementsoftware engineeringstrategic planningregulatory compliance

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

riskcompliancesecurityregulatoryleadership
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

London, UK

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