Application Security Engineer, Privacy

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social technology company is seeking a Privacy Engineer to tackle real-world privacy vulnerabilities and guide software engineers in remediation. This role involves incident triage, identifying and documenting threats, and applying a technical mindset to enhance overall security measures. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in privacy and security, coding skills in languages such as Python, and the ability to communicate complex issues clearly. Join to help protect the privacy of billions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years work experience in technical privacy, security, or security software engineering domains.
• Experience in identifying and remediating real-world privacy/security threats.
• Proficient in coding with Python, PHP, Java, or C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Get the right people involved to understand privacy incidents.
• Mitigate and remediate identified vulnerabilities.
• Apply technical understanding to prevent future incidents.

Skills

5+ years in technical privacy or security

Incident response

Python coding

Identifying privacy/security threats

Software engineering proficiency

Job description

Meta's Privacy Engineering team is seeking a Privacy Engineer with experience in applying an adversarial mindset to identify, scope, contain, and eradicate 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.

Responsibilities

• Incident triage & fact identification: Get the right people involved to understand what has happened and assess impact.
• Follow the facts uncovered in triage to mitigate and remediate the vulnerability.
• Review and understand what happened and ensure that the root cause and contributing factors are identified, documented, and remediated.
• Apply technical understanding to ensure Meta learns from each incident to ensure it doesn't resurface.
• Employ an adversarial mindset to proactively identify vulnerabilities across Meta's products.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years work experience in technical privacy, security, or security software engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security.
• Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real‑world privacy/security threats.
• Software engineering proficiency equivalent to 1+ years work experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language) including code maintenance and review.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security.
• Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations).
• Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, such as Application Security or Privacy.
• Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business.

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 WhatsApp 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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