Meta
Application Security Engineer, Privacy
Found: January 10, 2026
This role is based in Menlo Park, CA with additional locations available.
Compensation:
$122,000/year to $181,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 2+ 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years work experience in technical privacy or security engineering domains.
- Technical contributions to the privacy or security community.
- Experience within a corporate environment communicating technical issues and their implications.