Privacy Engineer - Privacy Red Team

Meta's Privacy Red Team is seeking experienced, passionate ethical hackers who thrive on discovering privacy weaknesses, to better protect user privacy of over a billion people. Your adversarial mindset and offensive privacy skills will be put to work carrying out offensive privacy testing on operations across our products and services. You will partner with engineering and product teams, in driving remediation of weaknesses you have identified, to ensure that Meta leads with industry-leading privacy practices.

• Privacy Engineer
• Privacy Red Team Responsibilities
  Execute technical, hands-on, offensive privacy testing to identify and exploit privacy weaknesses
  Work with cross-functional teams to drive remediation of privacy weaknesses
  Effectively communicate findings from operations to a technically wide audience
  Continuously identify and test ways that we can be better by improving team processes
  Be an advocate for best practice in protecting user data against privacy threat actors
  Planning and leading campaign-style red team operations testing response capabilities/teams

Minimum Qualifications:

2+ years experience in a related discipline such as red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability research, product security or security/privacy research
2+ years hands-on offensive testing skills (e.g. offensive security, pentesting, red teaming, vulnerability research, etc.)
2+ years of experience with scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Communication experience with researchers, engineering and product teams

Preferred Qualifications:

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
Contributions to the privacy or security community (participation in bug bounty programs, public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)
Experience with big data and relational databases (Hive, Presto, MySQL, etc.)
Experience with offensive testing of at least one of the following: web, iOS, Android
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

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: $122,000/year to $181,000/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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