Application Security Engineer, Privacy
Meta
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Job Description
Application Security Engineer, Privacy at Meta
Meta's Privacy Engineering team is seeking a Privacy Engineer with experience in identifying, scoping, containing and eradicating real-world privacy threats to products and infrastructure. Your primary responsibility will be to deal with privacy vulnerabilities by designing and guiding Software Engineers through remediations, learning from security/privacy incidents, and identifying vulnerabilities across our codebase at scale. 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.
Responsibilities
- Incident triage and 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 vulnerability
- 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
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
- 5+ 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains, including incident response, application privacy/security, and/or offensive security
- Technical contributions to the privacy or security community (e.g., public research, blogging, presentations)
- Technical experience across other Privacy or Security disciplines, such as Application Security or Privacy
- Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications to other areas of the business
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. 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.
Key skills/competency
- Application Security
- Privacy Engineering
- Incident Response
- Vulnerability Management
- Python
- PHP
- Java
- C/C++
- Offensive Security
- Data Protection
How to Get Hired at Meta
- Research Meta's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to align with their innovative spirit.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your application to highlight expertise in privacy engineering, incident response, application security, and coding for high-impact roles at Meta.
- Showcase relevant experience: Emphasize your proven ability in identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy and security threats effectively.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Sharpen your skills in application security principles, privacy-by-design concepts, offensive security, and demonstrate strong coding proficiency in Python, PHP, Java, or C/C++.
- Demonstrate communication skills: Be ready to clearly articulate complex technical issues and their implications to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.
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