Google reached a settlement last week with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the bypassing of Safari privacy and security settings, and now the search giant is looking to create a "red team" of experts to eliminate privacy bugs and risks in its products. The team will be charged with finding and fixing privacy risks within the company's products, services, and business processes. The existence of the team came to light after Google posted a job advert for a position as a "Data Privacy Engineer, Privacy Red Team."

"Top candidates will have an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of modern web browsers and computer networks, enjoy analyzing software designs and implementations from both a privacy and security perspective, and will be recognized experts at discovering and prioritizing subtle, unusual, and emergent security flaws," reads the job listing.

According to the job advert, the "data privacy engineer" for Google's "privacy red team" will play an important role within the company.

"You will help ensure that our products are designed to the highest standards and are operated in a manner that protects the privacy of our users," explains the search giant. "Specifically, you will work as a member of our Privacy Red Team to independently identify, research, and help resolve potential privacy risks across all of our products, services, and business processes in place today."

A red team works independently and internally at a company, overseeing its policies, the workforce, or products and services, much like quality-control.

"We're back-end ninjas: protecting your privacy, ensuring your security and leaving no trace behind," reads the job listing.

As Kaspersky Lab's ThreatPost points out, companies have been using the "red team" concept for years, as part of efforts to secure systems before black-hat hackers get to them. Google's move to focus on privacy, however, is "perhaps a unique one."

Google's move to gear up on privacy comes after the FTC dealt the company a $22.5 million penalty this month because Google had bypassed the Safari browser's privacy and security settings and set cookies even when the browser should have prevented it. The search giant did not admit any fault or guilt, and thus it escaped the wrath of the FTC with only a penalty instead of a more serious fine.