Application Security Engineer, Privacy

Meta's Privacy Engineering team is seeking a Privacy Engineer with experience in identifying, scoping, containing and eradicating real-world privacy threats to products and infrastructure. Your primary responsibility will be to deal with privacy vulnerabilities by designing and guiding Software Engineers through remediations, learning from security/privacy incidents, and identifying vulnerabilities across our codebase at scale. Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of billions of people. You will advance Meta’s mission of making the world more open and connected by identifying and neutralizing threats that aim to collect sensitive information or disrupt our systems.
Application Security Engineer, Privacy Responsibilities
Incident triage and fact identification: Get the right people involved to understand what has happened and assess impact
Follow the facts uncovered in triage to mitigate and remediate the vulnerability
Review and understand what happened and ensure that the root cause and contributing factors are identified, documented, and remediated
Apply technical understanding to ensure Meta learns from each incident to ensure it doesn't resurface
Build AI agents and agent pipelines to help discover, prevent, and remediate vulnerabilities and privacy issues across all Meta products

Minimum Qualifications:

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
5+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
5+ years work experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language) including code maintenance and review
Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threats

Preferred Qualifications:

7+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations)
Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, such as Application Security or Privacy

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and Whats App further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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United States of America: $154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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