Meta
Application Security Engineer, Privacy
$154K–$217K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in technical privacy or security engineering domains; the posting also states 7+ years in those domains. 5+ years coding experience.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Identify, investigate, and remediate privacy and security vulnerabilities across Meta products, and build AI agents and pipelines to help prevent and address them.
What you'll do
- Triage incidents, identify facts and impact, and coordinate the people needed to respond.
- Mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, document root causes, and apply lessons from incidents.
- Build AI agents and agent pipelines to discover, prevent, and remediate vulnerabilities and privacy issues.
What they ask for
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of coding experience in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++ (or equivalent language), including code maintenance and review.
- Experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating real-world privacy/security threats.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact.
Nice to have
- Technical contributions to the privacy or security community, such as public research, blogging, or presentations.
- Experience implementing responsible AI practices and ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration.
Pay
$154,000/year to $217,000/year (base salary)
Tools
Python, PHP, Java, C/C++
AI focus
Build AI agents and agent pipelines to discover, prevent, and remediate vulnerabilities and privacy issues; integrate AI tools into workflows and apply responsible AI practices.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative