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About the role

  • Senior Privacy Engineer leading projects to protect user privacy and drive innovation at DuckDuckGo. Collaborating with cross-functional teams using technologies like Node.js, Go, and Python.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • Office setup and co-working allowances

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$178,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

JavaScriptNode.jsPerlPythonGo

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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