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Senior Privacy Engineer

DuckDuckGo · Remote · Remote

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About DuckDuckGo

Backed by Lux and USV.

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

More about this role

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 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!

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...

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