Meta

Privacy Engineer, Red Team

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2 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$184k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta products and infrastructure.
  • Develop privacy red team methodologies, testing frameworks, tooling, and scalable workflows.
  • Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities including re-identification risks, data minimization failures, unauthorized access, consent bypasses, and cross-context data leakage.
  • Drive remediation with engineering, product, legal, policy, security, and compliance teams.
  • Communicate technical privacy findings through risk assessments to engineering teams and non-technical leadership.
  • Define the privacy red team strategy and roadmap, identify emerging threats, and influence organizational priorities.
  • Mentor engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques.
  • Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations and track mitigation across teams.
  • Develop technical solutions to close gaps in privacy controls, detection capabilities, and engineering processes.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or a related field focused on adversarial testing, vulnerability research, or privacy risk assessment.
  • Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments, including threat modeling, attack simulation, and control validation across large-scale consumer products.
  • Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, unauthorized data access patterns, and consent or purpose limitation bypasses.
  • Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings to engineering teams and non-technical leadership stakeholders.
  • Experience driving cross-functional remediation and influencing engineering and product decisions through privacy risk analysis.
  • Preferred experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
  • Preferred experience developing automated tooling or testing pipelines for privacy red team assessments across distributed codebases.
  • Track record of defining and operationalizing privacy red team programs from early development through organizational adoption.
  • Experience integrating AI tools and developing skills in prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, and emerging AI technologies.
  • Experience with data flow analysis, traffic inspection, or reverse engineering for privacy control validation.
  • Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, ISO 29134, and global privacy regulations or frameworks.

Benefits

  • $184,000/year to $257,000/year base salary, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

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Meta

About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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