Privacy Engineer

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Privacy Engineering team in Greater London seeks a Privacy Engineer with an adversarial mindset to identify and eradicate real-world privacy threats to products and infrastructure. Your primary responsibility is to remediate vulnerabilities and guide software engineers through fixes, learning from incidents and scaling privacy protections across codebases.

You will apply responsible AI practices, analyze incidents, and drive privacy improvements across teams, contributing to Meta's

Qualifications

• 2+ years in privacy, security, or security software engineering domains
• Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threats
• Coding proficiency in Python, Java, or C/C++ with maintenance and review
• BS/MS in CS or related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience implementing responsible AI practices (risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality checks)

Responsibilities

• Design and guide remediations for privacy vulnerabilities at scale
• Learn from security/privacy incidents and drive improvements
• Validate and remediate privacy risks across codebases with engineers
• Collaborate to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows and threat detection

Skills

Privacy engineering

Security incident response

Python

Java

C/C++

Ethical AI

Communicating risk

AI tool integration

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field

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.

• 2+ 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
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business
• Experience managing large-scale incidents with broad, public visibility
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, e.g., Application Security/Privacy
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations)