Privacy Engineer,Red Team Job Madison area,Wisconsin USA,IT/Tech

Summary:

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 s is a high-impact, technically demanding role for an experienced privacy engineer who thinks like an adversary and builds like an engineer.

Required Skills:

Privacy Engineer, Red Team 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

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or a related field with a focus on adversarial testing, vulnerability research, or privacy risk assessment

Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments, including threat modeling, attack simulation, and control validation across large-scale consumer products

Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, unauthorized data access patterns, or consent and purpose limitation bypass

Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings in written form to both engineering teams and non-technical leadership stakeholders

Experience driving cross-functional remediation efforts and influencing engineering and product decisions through privacy risk analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Experience developing automated tooling or testing pipelines to scale privacy red team assessments across large, distributed…