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DuckDuckGo · 1 day ago

Senior Privacy Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$178K/yr - $178K/yr

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. As a Senior Privacy Engineer, you'll lead complex projects to enhance user privacy through innovative engineering solutions and collaborate with peers to maintain and improve privacy technologies.

InternetPrivacySearch Engine

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

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 EmailProtections

Collaborate remotely with peers and take ownership over major components of our privacy technology

Participation in privacy review and audit processes, ensuring product developments align with privacy principles

Mentor other engineers, supporting their career growth and the growth of the Privacy Team at DuckDuckGo

Qualification

Privacy solutions experienceGoNode.jsPythonPrivacy review processesOnline privacy threatsCross-functional communicationInnovative problem solvingProject management

Required

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)

Experience in privacy review and audit processes that ensure product developments align with established privacy principles

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, and Python

Cross-functional communication skills. You can communicate your ideas to and understand the needs of various teams, such as legal, product, and marketing