Privacy Engineer, Incident Response and Investigation
Remote, US
Meta's Privacy Incident Response Engineering team is seeking a Privacy Engineer with experience in identifying, scoping, containing and eradicating real-world privacy threats to products and infrastructure. We are looking for engineers with a passion for protecting our users’ privacy and security by triaging, mitigating, remediating and learning from security/privacy incidents and potential weaknesses found in our systems. 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, Incident Response and Investigation Responsibilities
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly 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. Apply
- Triage & fact identification: Get the right people involved to understand what has happened and assess impact.
- Follow the facts uncovered in triage to mitigate and remediate the incident.
- Review and understand what happened and ensure that the root cause and contributing factors are identified, documented, and remediated.
- Apply technical understanding to ensure Meta learns from each incident to ensure it doesn’t resurface.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security.
- 2+ years work experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language) including code maintenance and review.
- Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threats.
- 5+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security.
- Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, e.g., Application Security/Privacy.
- Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business.
- Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations).
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly 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. Apply
Job Profile
Regions Countries Benefits/PerksBenefits Bonus Equity Long term conditions Mental health conditions Pregnancy-related support Religious beliefs
Tasks- Identify root causes
- Learn from incidents
- Mitigate and remediate incidents
- Triage & fact identification
Application Security C C/C++ Coding Computer Science Engineering Incident Response Java PHP Privacy Privacy Threats Mitigation Python Recruiting Research Security disciplines Security Engineering Technical Technical experience
Experience3+ years
EducationB.S. in Computer Science Business Computer Science Engineering MS in Computer Science Physics Related Field Technology
TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9