Summary
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Join a high-impact privacy engineering team focused on identifying, scoping, containing, and eliminating real-world privacy threats across products and infrastructure. You will investigate incidents, assess impact, uncover vulnerabilities at scale, and design or guide remediation efforts with software engineers. The role combines privacy engineering, security analysis, incident response, vulnerability management, and an adversarial mindset, with the opportunity to help protect sensitive information and strengthen systems used by billions of people.
Highlights
Work on high-impact privacy and security challenges affecting billions of people. The role offers the opportunity to identify and neutralize real-world privacy threats, guide software engineers on remediation, learn from security and privacy incidents, and contribute to security initiatives at large scale.
Description
Meta's Privacy Engineering team is seeking a Privacy Engineer with experience in applying an adversarial mindset to identify, scope, contain, and eradicate real-world privacy threats to products and infrastructure.
Your primary responsibility will be to deal with privacy vulnerabilities by designing and guiding Software Engineers through remediations, learning from security/privacy incidents, and identifying vulnerabilities across our codebase at scale.
Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of billions of people.
You will advance Meta’s mission of making the world more open and connected by identifying and neutralizing threats that aim to collect sensitive information or disrupt our systems.
Privacy Engineer Responsibilities:
Incident triage and fact identification: Get the right people involved to understand what has happened and assess the impactFollow the facts uncovered in the triage to mitigate and remediate the vulnerabilityReview and understand what happened, and ensure that the root cause and contributing factors are identified, documented, and remediatedApply technical understanding to ensure Meta learns from each incident to ensure it doesn’t resurfaceBuild AI agents and agent pipelines to help discover, prevent, and remediate vulnerabilities and privacy issuesEmploy an adversarial mindset to proactively identify vulnerabilities across Meta's products
Minimum Qualifications:
2+ years work experience in technical privacy, security, or security software engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive securityExperience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threatsSoftware engineering proficiency equivalent to 1+ years work experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language) including code maintenance and review
Preferred Qualifications:
B.S.
or M.S.
in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experienceExperience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the businessExperience managing large-scale incidents with broad, public visibilityDemonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, e.g., Application Security/PrivacyDemonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologiesTechnical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations)
About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect.
Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world.
Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable.
In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits.
Learn more about benefits at Meta.
