Senior Privacy Engineer

DuckDuckGo; United States; Remote; USD 160,650 - 196,350; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Office setup allowances

Co-working allowances

Job summary

DuckDuckGo is looking for a Senior Privacy Engineer to lead complex privacy projects while ensuring user protection. You will drive improvements in our privacy technology and work on key company objectives.

The ideal candidate will have a robust technical background, strong leadership abilities, and excellent communication skills to navigate complex privacy issues. Compensation is set at $178,500 USD annually with stock options, ensuring equality across team members.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact projects from proposal to post-mortem.
• Experience working on privacy engineering solutions.
• Deep understanding of online privacy threats.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects on the Privacy Functional Team.
• Implement new privacy features and maintain existing ones.
• Participate in privacy review and audit processes.

Skills

Leadership on complex projects

Innovative problem-solving

Online privacy solutions

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Node.js

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in Perl

Communication skills

Job description

Who We Are

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work, you've come to the right place!

Your Team and Role

Working on the Privacy Functional Team, you'll lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives. You'll protect the privacy of our users using Go, Node.js, Python, and (sometimes) Perl to write pragmatic, performant, testable code, and work on related projects. Potential projects include:

• Designing systems for improving our search indexes and AI features without compromising user privacy

• Building new features on top of our Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging privacy threats

• Implementing new privacy features and maintaining existing ones, such as our Web Tracking and Email Protections

As a Senior Privacy Engineer, you'll own major components of our privacy technology, taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time. A key part of the role will also be participation in our privacy review and audit processes, ensuring that all product developments align with our privacy principles. In time, you'll 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 post-mortem.

• 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 (e.g. 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. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly to a variety of audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation

178,500 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is transparent across the organization, and all team members within the same professional level and global region receive the same compensation.

Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. This program does not extend to team members located in other countries, such as Canada or the UK.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [e-mail] to let us know the nature of your request.