Privacy Engineer Privacy Red Team

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**Summary:**
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 world-class privacy practices.
**Required Skills:**
Privacy Engineer - Privacy Red Team Responsibilities:
1.

Execute technical, hands-on, offensive privacy testing to identify and exploit privacy weaknesses
2.

Work with cross-functional teams to drive remediation of privacy weaknesses
3.

Effectively communicate findings from operations to a technically wide audience
4.

Continuously identify and test ways that we can be better by improving team processes
5.

Be an advocate for best practice in protecting user data against privacy threat actors
6.

Planning and leading campaign-style red team operations testing response capabilities/teams
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
7.

2+ years experience in a related discipline such as red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability research, product security or security/privacy research
8.

2+ years hands-on offensive testing skills (e.g. offensive security, pentesting, red teaming, vulnerability research, etc.)
9.

2+ years experience of scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
10.

Communication experience with researchers, engineering and product teams
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
11.

Experience with offensive testing of at least one of the following: web, iOS, Android
12.

Experience with big data and relational databases (Hive, Presto, MySQL, etc.)
13.

Contributions to the privacy or security community (participation in bug bounty programs, public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)
**Public Compensation:**
$117,000/year to $173,000/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.

Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.

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

If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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Job Details

Company: Meta
Location: Austin, TX, 78703, USA, Austin, TX, United States
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Undisclosed
Posted: 2025-10-23
Status: (Active)
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