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 industry-leading privacy practices.
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
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 of experience with scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) Communication experience with researchers, engineering and product teams
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews) Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies Contributions to the privacy or security community (participation in bug bounty programs, public research, blogging, presentations, etc.) Experience with big data and relational databases (Hive, Presto, MySQL, etc.) Experience with offensive testing of at least one of the following: web, iOS, Android Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
$122,000/year to $181,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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