Senior Privacy Engineer at DuckDuckGo

Who We Are

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and a remote first team of more than 300 people on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, the company now earns over $100m USD in annual revenue. Millions of people use the DuckDuckGo browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, along with the search engine and the DuckDuckGo subscription.

The company also offers private, useful, and optional AI through Duck.ai, which lets users chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs in one place. A culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything, and each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution through postmortem.

Your Team and Role

Working on the Privacy Functional Team, you will lead complex projects across key company wide objectives. You will protect the privacy of users using Go, Node.js, Python, and sometimes Perl to write pragmatic, performant, and testable code, and you will work on related projects.

Potential projects include:

• Designing systems for improving search indexes and AI features without compromising user privacy
• Building new features on top of the Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging privacy threats
• Implementing new privacy features and maintaining existing ones, such as Web Tracking and Email Protections

As a Senior Privacy Engineer, you will own major components of the privacy technology, taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time. A key part of the role is participation in privacy review and audit processes, ensuring that all product developments align with privacy principles. In time, you will formally mentor other engineers, supporting their career growth and the growth of the Privacy Team at DuckDuckGo.

About You

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them effectively, involving others when necessary
• Experience working on privacy solutions in an engineering capacity, for example a tracker blocker, differential privacy, or similar technology
• Deep technical understanding of online privacy threats and the existing solution space to protect against them
• Proficiency in any of the following: Go, Node.js, Python, Perl
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to validate decisions and communicate them clearly to a variety of audiences, including non technical stakeholders