Privacy Engineer - Red Team - Remote, US
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 - Red Team Responsibilities
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta. Apply
- Source, plan and lead in-depth offensive privacy red team operations.
- Execute deep 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 diverse 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.
- 5+ years experience in a related discipline such as red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability research, product security or security/privacy research.
- 3+ 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.
- 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.).
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta. Apply
Job Profile
Regions Countries Benefits/PerksAccommodations for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs Base salary of $143,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits Benefits Benefits offered by Meta Bonus Compensation based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location Equity Support for neurodivergent or pregnancy-related needs
SkillsAndroid Big Data IOS Penetration Testing Perl PHP Product Security Python Red Teaming Relational databases Ruby Security/privacy research Technical Vulnerability research Web
Tasks- Advocate for best practices in protecting user data
- Communicate findings to a technically diverse audience
- Execute offensive privacy testing to identify and exploit privacy weaknesses
- Identify and test ways to improve team processes
- Plan and lead campaign-style red team operations testing response capabilities/teams
- Source, plan, and lead offensive privacy red team operations
- Work with cross-functional teams to drive remediation of privacy weaknesses
5+ years
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