Adversarial Privacy Engineer – Red Team

Meta Careers; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Privacy Engineer for its Privacy Red Team to proactively identify privacy risks across its family of apps. You will design adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world attacks, and drive improvements to privacy-by-design in products and infrastructure.

Collaborate with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to remediate findings at scale; mentor engineers, define repeatable processes, and help align privacy testing with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or related field with a focus on adversarial testing, vulnerability research, or privacy risk assessment.
• Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments, including threat modeling, attack simulation, and control validation across large-scale consumer products.
• Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, unauthorized data access patterns, or consent and purpose limitation bypass.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure, simulating real-world threat scenarios to identify data exposure, unauthorized access, and privacy control failures.
• Develop and maintain a red team methodology and testing framework specific to privacy risks, including data minimization failures, consent bypass, re-identification attacks, and cross-context data leakage.
• Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows that enable scalable, repeatable adversarial testing across Meta's evolving product portfolio.
• Translate complex privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments and communicate them clearly to both technical engineering teams and non-technical leadership audiences.
• Mentor other engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques, fostering a culture of proactive privacy risk identification across the broader engineering organization.

Skills

Adversarial testing

Threat modeling

Privacy risk assessment

Cross-functional collaboration

Security engineering

Tools

Automated tooling

Testing pipelines

Job description

Meta seeks a Privacy Engineer for its Privacy Red Team to proactively identify privacy risks across its family of apps. You will design adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world attacks, and drive improvements to privacy-by-design in products and infrastructure.

Collaborate with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to remediate findings at scale; mentor engineers, define repeatable processes, and help align privacy testing with regulatory standards.