Privacy Engineer – Privacy Red Team

Salary

$117 - 173k

Location Type

Remote

Role

Cybersecurity

Level

Mid

Languages (other)

Python

PHP

Ruby

Perl

About Meta

Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates, the company initially launched Facebook, a social networking platform that revolutionized online communication. Over the years, Meta expanded its portfolio by acquiring other prominent platforms, including Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, further solidifying its presence in the social media landscape.

In 2021, Meta rebranded itself to reflect its strategic shift towards developing the metaverse—a digital ecosystem encompassing virtual and augmented reality technologies. This move signifies the company’s commitment to creating immersive experiences that transcend traditional 2D interfaces, aiming to build the next evolution in social technology.

Meta’s diverse product suite includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads, each serving unique user needs. The company also operates Reality Labs, focusing on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality products, and Meta AI, which develops artificial intelligence tools, including language-processing models. As of 2024, Meta reported annual revenues of $164.50 billion, with a global workforce of approximately 76,834 employees.

The company’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Meta’s services empower more than 3 billion people worldwide to share ideas and offer support. The company emphasizes principles such as giving people a voice, building connection and community, serving everyone, keeping people safe and protecting privacy, and promoting economic opportunity. These principles guide Meta’s approach to developing technology that fosters meaningful relationships and community engagement.

About Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. 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.

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About the Job

Meta’s Privacy Red Team is seeking experienced, passionate ethical hackers who thrive on discovering privacy weaknesses, to better protect user privacy of over a billion people. Your adversarial mindset and offensive privacy skills will be put to work carrying out offensive privacy testing on operations across our products and services. You will partner with engineering and product teams, in driving remediation of weaknesses you have identified, to ensure that Meta leads with world-class privacy practices.Privacy Engineer – Privacy Red Team Responsibilities

Execute technical, hands-on, offensive privacy testing to identify and exploit privacy weaknesses
Work with cross-functional teams to drive remediation of privacy weaknesses
Effectively communicate findings from operations to a technically wide audience
Continuously identify and test ways that we can be better by improving team processes
Be an advocate for best practice in protecting user data against privacy threat actors
Planning and leading campaign-style red team operations testing response capabilities/teams

Minimum Qualifications

2+ years experience in a related discipline such as red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability research, product security or security/privacy research
2+ years hands-on offensive testing skills (e.g. offensive security, pentesting, red teaming, vulnerability research, etc.)
2+ years experience of scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Communication experience with researchers, engineering and product teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with offensive testing of at least one of the following: web, iOS, Android
Experience with big data and relational databases (Hive, Presto, MySQL, etc.)
Contributions to the privacy or security community (participation in bug bounty programs, public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. $117,000/year to $173,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits 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. Equal Employment Opportunity Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice here. Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, fill out the Accommodations request form.