Privacy Red Team Engineer: Adversarial Threat Modeling

Meta; Madison (WI); 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 and expose privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will perform adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attacks, and drive improvements to how privacy-protective systems are designed and built.

You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, advancing privacy by design while balancing business needs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in privacy/security with adversarial testing or risk assessment.
• Experience designing and executing red team assessments for large consumer products.
• Ability to identify re-identification risks, data minimization failures and consent bypass.
• Proven ability to communicate risk findings to engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and run adversarial privacy assessments across Meta products.
• Develop a red team framework focused on privacy risks and testing.
• Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities and drive remediation with partners.
• Improve red team processes enabling scalable testing across products.
• Translate findings into actionable risk assessments for engineers and leaders.
• Partner with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams for alignment.
• Drive long-term privacy red team strategy and roadmap.
• Mentor engineers in adversarial privacy testing techniques.
• Lead coordinated responses to major privacy risk escalations.
• Close gaps in controls, detection, and engineering processes at scale.

Skills

Adversarial assessments

Red team framework

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy risk translation

Regulatory alignment

Roadmap strategy

Mentorship

Incident response

Threat modeling

Tools

Privacy tooling

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer for its Privacy Red Team to proactively identify and expose privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will perform adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attacks, and drive improvements to how privacy-protective systems are designed and built.

You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, advancing privacy by design while balancing business needs.