Adversarial Privacy Engineer, Red Team

Meta; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join our Privacy Red Team, a specialized function dedicated to proactively identifying and exposing privacy risks across Meta's family of apps and services before they impact users. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements to how Meta designs and builds privacy-protective systems.

This role sits at the intersection of offensive security thinking and privacy engineering,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in privacy or security engineering focusing on adversarial testing and privacy risk assessment
• Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments across large-scale products
• Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks and consent bypass
• Ability to translate privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience driving cross-functional remediation efforts and influencing engineering decisions through risk analysis
• Familiarity with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and audit contexts

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
• Communicate complex privacy findings to technical and non-technical leadership
• Coordinate with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align findings with regulatory obligations
• Drive long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations
• Mentor engineers in adversarial privacy testing techniques
• Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations
• Identify gaps in privacy controls and drive scalable technical solutions

Skills

Adversarial privacy testing

Vulnerability research

Privacy risk assessment

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical communication

Program leadership

AI tooling integration

Data flow analysis

Reverse engineering

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join our Privacy Red Team, a specialized function dedicated to proactively identifying and exposing privacy risks across Meta's family of apps and services before they impact users. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements to how Meta designs and builds privacy-protective systems.

This role sits at the intersection of offensive security thinking and privacy engineering,