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About the role
DuckDuckGo is the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, millions use our browser, search engine, and DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai.
As a Senior Privacy Engineer on the Privacy Functional Team, you'll lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management gives each team member full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem.
What you'll do
- Protect user privacy using Go, Node.js, Python, and sometimes Perl to write pragmatic, performant, testable code.
- Design systems for improving search indexes and AI features without compromising user privacy.
- Build new features on top of the Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging privacy threats.
- Implement new privacy features and maintain existing ones, such as Web Tracking and Email Protections.
- Own major components of our privacy technology, taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
- Participate in privacy review and audit processes, ensuring that all product developments align with our privacy principles.
- In time, formally mentor other engineers, supporting their career growth and the growth of the Privacy Team.
What they're looking for
- 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, such as tracker blockers, 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, including validating decisions and communicating them clearly to a variety of audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.
- Attend meetings on camera via video conferencing.
- Expect to travel at least twice a year for an all-hands meetup and a team retreat, each around 4–5 days. Everyone is strongly encouraged to attend, though extenuating circumstances may impact attendance.
- Pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
From the company page
DuckDuckGo benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, and whenever.”
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The hot takeJeff's read on DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo has the only perfect score in our database, and is THE prototype for what we look for in a work-from-anywhere company. Well, not JUST a WFA company, but ANY company. Here's the core tenets we look for:
- Clear prioritization of working from anywhere as a business model.
- Clear expression of trust and empowerment for employees.
- Understanding that output > location or hours.
- Transparent perk package.
- Transparent salary offering per role.
- Emphasis of employees over mission statement.