Privacy Red Team Engineer: Adversarial Risk & Defense

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer for its Privacy Red Team to proactively identify privacy risks across Meta’s apps and services. You will simulate adversarial scenarios, surface privacy vulnerabilities, and drive improvements in privacy-protective systems at scale.

This role requires experience in adversarial testing, threat modeling, and cross-functional collaboration with product, legal, and engineering teams. The position emphasizes leadership in red team operations and strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in privacy or security with adversarial focus.
• Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments across large-scale consumer products.
• Experience identifying privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, and consent bypass.
• Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings to engineers and leadership.
• Experience driving cross-functional remediation and influencing product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure to identify data exposure and privacy control failures.
• Develop and maintain a privacy-focused red team methodology and testing framework.
• Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities and drive remediation with cross-functional partners.
• Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows for scalable testing.
• Translate findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and leadership audiences.
• Partner with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align findings with regulations.

Skills

Adversarial privacy testing

Threat modeling

Privacy engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Data minimization

Re-identification risks

Vulnerability research

Policy alignment

Tools

Data flow analysis tools

Reverse engineering tools

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer for its Privacy Red Team to proactively identify privacy risks across Meta’s apps and services. You will simulate adversarial scenarios, surface privacy vulnerabilities, and drive improvements in privacy-protective systems at scale.

This role requires experience in adversarial testing, threat modeling, and cross-functional collaboration with product, legal, and engineering teams. The position emphasizes leadership in red team operations and strategy.