Senior Privacy Engineer

The role

You will lead complex projects to protect user privacy using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl. You will own major components of privacy technology, participate in privacy reviews, and mentor other engineers.

What you will do

• Lead complex projects from proposal through post-mortem
• Protect user privacy using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl
• Design systems for improving search indexes and AI features
• Build new features on the Tracker Radar crawler to detect privacy threats
• Implement and maintain privacy features like Web Tracking and Email Protections
• Own major components of privacy technology
• Participate in privacy review and audit processes
• Mentor other engineers

Required qualifications

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects
• Skills to wrangle vague problems and execute innovative solutions
• Experience working on privacy solutions in an engineering capacity
• Deep technical understanding of online privacy threats and existing solution space
• Proficiency in Go, Node.js, Python, or Perl
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Stock options
• Paid parental leave
• Office setup
• Co-working allowances

Before you apply

• Required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
• Must pass a background check
• Consent to the use of AI technology in the review process

About the company

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ people. It was founded in 2008 and is a profitable company with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions USD.