Privacy Red Team Engineer: Adversarial Risk & Defenses

Meta; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, focusing on adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's apps and services. You will simulate privacy attacks, identify data exposure, and drive systemic improvements to privacy-protective systems.

You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, shaping the privacy engineering culture across Meta.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or a related field with focus on adversarial testing or privacy risk assessment.

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 red team methodology and testing framework for privacy risks, including consent bypass and cross-context data leakage.
• 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 adversarial testing.
• Translate complex privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align findings with regulatory obligations and internal standards.
• Drive long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations and emerging threat vectors.
• Mentor engineers on adversarial testing techniques and promote proactive privacy risk identification.

Skills

Adversarial testing

Privacy risk assessment

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory alignment

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, focusing on adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's apps and services. You will simulate privacy attacks, identify data exposure, and drive systemic improvements to privacy-protective systems.

You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, shaping the privacy engineering culture across Meta.