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Privacy Engineer, Red Team

Meta· Engineering
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Menlo Park, CA$184k - $257kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Privacy Engineer to join Meta's Privacy Red Team, proactively identifying and exposing privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. Conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements in privacy-protective systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure, simulating real-world threat scenarios to identify data exposure, unauthorized access, and privacy control failures
  • Develop and maintain a red team methodology and testing framework specific to privacy risks, including data minimization failures, consent bypass, re-identification attacks, and cross-context data leakage
  • Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities across multiple product surfaces and drive remediation through cross-functional partnerships with engineering, product, legal, and policy teams
  • Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows that enable scalable, repeatable adversarial testing across Meta's evolving product portfolio
  • Translate complex privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments and communicate them clearly to both technical engineering teams and non-technical leadership audiences
  • Partner with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align red team findings with regulatory obligations and internal privacy standards
  • Drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations, identifying emerging threat vectors and influencing organizational priorities accordingly
  • Mentor other engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques, fostering a culture of proactive privacy risk identification across the broader engineering organization
  • Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations, managing cross-functional mitigation efforts and tracking resolution across multiple teams
  • Identify gaps in existing privacy controls, detection capabilities, and engineering processes, and drive technical solutions to close those gaps at scale

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or a related field with a focus 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, or consent and purpose limitation bypass
  • Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings in written form to both engineering teams and non-technical leadership stakeholders
  • Experience driving cross-functional remediation efforts and influencing engineering and product decisions through privacy risk analysis

Skills

Required:Adversarial privacy testingThreat modelingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Benefits information available on Meta Careers site
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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