Privacy Engineer, Red Team

About the job

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join our Privacy Red Team, a specialized function dedicated to proactively identifying and exposing privacy risks across Meta's family of apps and services before they can impact the people who use our products. In this role, you will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive systemic improvements to how Meta designs and builds privacy-protective systems. You will operate at the intersection of offensive security thinking and privacy engineering, partnering with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface and remediate privacy vulnerabilities at scale. This is a high-impact, technically demanding role for an experienced privacy engineer who thinks like an adversary and builds like an engineer.

Responsibilities

Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure, simulating real-world threat scenarios to identify data exposure, unauthorized access, and privacy control failures Develop and maintain a red team methodology and testing framework specific to privacy risks, including data minimization failures, consent bypass, re-identification attacks, and cross-context data leakage Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities across multiple product surfaces and drive remediation through cross-functional partnerships with engineering, product, legal, and policy teams Define and improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows that enable scalable, repeatable adversarial testing across Meta's evolving product portfolio Translate complex privacy attack findings into actionable risk assessments and communicate them clearly to both technical engineering teams and non-technical leadership audiences Partner with privacy engineering, security, and compliance teams to align red team findings with regulatory obligations and internal privacy standards Drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations, identifying emerging threat vectors and influencing organizational priorities accordingly Mentor other engineers on adversarial privacy testing techniques, fostering a culture of proactive privacy risk identification across the broader engineering organization Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations, managing cross-functional mitigation efforts and tracking resolution across multiple teams Identify gaps in existing privacy controls, detection capabilities, and engineering processes, and drive technical solutions to close those gaps at scale