Adversarial Privacy Engineer, Red Team

Meta; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking aPrivacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a dedicated function that proactively identifies privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will conduct adversarial assessments, simulate privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements to protect user data at scale.

You will work at the intersection of offensive security thinking and privacy engineering, partnering with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate privacy

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or a related field with adversarial testing or privacy risk assessment.
• Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments across large-scale consumer products.
• Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, or consent bypass.
• Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings to both engineering teams and non-technical leadership.
• Experience driving cross-functional remediation and influencing product decisions through privacy risk analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain a red team methodology and testing framework for privacy risks.
• Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities and drive remediation with engineering, product, legal, and policy teams.
• Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows for scalable testing.
• Translate complex privacy findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and leadership audiences.
• Collaborate with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align with regulatory obligations.
• Help shape long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations.
• Mentor engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques and promote proactive risk identification.
• Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations across multiple teams.
• Identify gaps in privacy controls and drive technical solutions to close them at scale.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Adversarial testing

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory alignment

Job description

Meta is seeking aPrivacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a dedicated function that proactively identifies privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will conduct adversarial assessments, simulate privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements to protect user data at scale.

You will work at the intersection of offensive security thinking and privacy engineering, partnering with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate privacy