Senior Privacy Red Team Engineer

Meta; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a specialized unit that proactively identifies privacy risks across Meta’s apps and services. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attacks, and drive systemic improvements to protect user data.

This role blends offensive security thinking with privacy engineering at scale. You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities, build

Qualifications

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

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 cross-functional partners.
• Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows.
• Translate complex privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Partner with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align findings with standards.
• Drive long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations.
• Mentor engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques.
• Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations.
• Identify gaps in controls and drive scalable technical solutions.

Skills

Adversarial privacy testing

Threat modeling

Privacy risk assessment

Vulnerability research

Cross-functional collaboration

Communicating risk findings

Ethical AI practices

Automated tooling

Data flow analysis

Regulatory familiarity (GDPR/CCPA/ISO

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a specialized unit that proactively identifies privacy risks across Meta’s apps and services. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attacks, and drive systemic improvements to protect user data.

This role blends offensive security thinking with privacy engineering at scale. You will partner with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate vulnerabilities, build