Application Security Engineer, Privacy

Job description

**Summary:**
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.
**Required Skills:**
Application Security Engineer, Privacy Responsibilities:
1.

Incident triage and fact identification: Get the right people involved to understand what has happened and assess impact
2.

Follow the facts uncovered in triage to mitigate and remediate the vulnerability
3.

Review and understand what happened and ensure that the root cause and contributing factors are identified, documented, and remediated
4.

Apply technical understanding to ensure Meta learns from each incident to ensure it doesn’t resurface
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
5.

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
6.

5+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
7.

5+ years work experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language) including code maintenance and review
8.

Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threats
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
9.

7+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
10.

Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations)
11.

Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, such as Application Security or Privacy
12.

Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business
**Public Compensation:**
$147,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
**Industry:** Internet
**Equal Opportunity:**
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

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