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Meta Security Engineer Interview Questions

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Security & InfrastructureStart here. 11 questions · ~110 min
DDoS Defense for Global CDNHard
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Design a Meta CDN architecture that detects volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks while preserving legitimate traffic.

InfrastructureNetworkingnetwork securityMeta
Automated Incident Response PipelineHard
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Design an automated, threat-modeled incident response pipeline for distributed cloud workloads at Meta.

cloud securitycybersecuritycloud environmentMeta
Privacy-Preserving Telemetry at ScaleHard
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Design a billion-user telemetry system using differential privacy, secure aggregation, minimization, and verifiable access controls.

system designpiicryptographyMeta
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Coding3 questions · ~30 min
Detect Port Scan SourcesHard
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Use parsing, sorting, and a per-IP sliding window to detect source IPs that hit many distinct destination ports quickly.

Hash TablesArraysStringsMeta
Validate IPv4 and IPv6 AddressMedium
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Parse a string and determine whether it is a valid IPv4 address, valid IPv6 address, or neither.

Hash TablesMathStringsMeta
Secure Token Bucket Rate LimiterHard
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Implement a token bucket rate limiter that safely validates signed requests and enforces per-key limits in O(1) average time.

QueueMathGreedyMeta
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Behavioral & Leadership9 questions · ~90 min
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More topics2 questions · ~20 min
Symmetric vs Asymmetric EncryptionMedium
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Tests the difference between shared-key and public-key cryptography, including their practical use in secure communication.

networking basicscryptographysecurity fundamentalsMeta
Design ML-Powered Secret Rotation PrioritizerHard
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Design an ML-based centralized secrets management system that ranks risky secrets for rotation at Meta scale under strict latency and reliability limits.

InfrastructureFeature StoreModel ServingMeta

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