DuckDuckGo jobs

Senior Privacy Engineer at DuckDuckGo, a profitable 300+ person remote-first online protection company. The role involves leading complex privacy-focused projects, including designing systems for search/AI privacy, building tracker detection features, and implementing privacy protections (email, web tracking). Requires expertise in privacy solutions, Go, Node.js, Python, or Perl; compensation is $178.5k USD + stock options.

This Privacy Engineering Director role at DuckDuckGo leads the privacy functional team on complex privacy engineering challenges across the company's consumer products including browser, search, and agentic computing. Responsibilities include building privacy frameworks, leading privacy initiatives, managing audits and review processes, and developing privacy engineering talent. Remote, US-based.

DuckDuckGo seeks a Senior Web Security Engineer for their Browser Platform team to conduct security audits, execute SERP mitigations (XSS prevention), manage application security scanning infrastructure, and lead internal red-team operations. Requires 7+ years in web/application security with hands-on JavaScript, WebView technology familiarity, and browser security models (SOP, CSP, CORS). Compensation: $178,500 USD + stock options; 100% remote; profitable, 300+ employee company.

DuckDuckGo, a profitable $100m+ privacy-focused company with 300+ remote-first employees, seeks a Director of User Insights to lead a research team embedded across product areas and translate user behavior into shipped product decisions. You'll set strategic direction for how research informs product decisions across the company, manage a team of researchers, and own work spanning qualitative and quantitative methods—conjoint analysis, A/B testing, diary studies, metric frameworks—while ensuring insights reach decision-makers at critical moments. This requires 15+ years of professional experience including 4+ years in senior leadership (Director/Head/VP level) in user insights or research, deep practitioner knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, a track record of developing researchers' skills, and comfort distilling ambiguous product questions into measurement approaches from first principles. The role pays $243,800 USD annually plus stock options with transparent, level-based compensation regardless of location, though US-based benefits are more comprehensive. You must have experience at consumer-facing tech companies with meaningful US userbases, working in fast-shipping environments with multiple daily A/B tests, and representing research strategy to leadership in business terms. Note that the role requires in-person attendance at two company retreats annually (4-5 days each) and comfort with AI tools to accelerate workflows.

DuckDuckGo's Senior Backend Engineer role focuses on backend systems for search, AI-assisted answers (Duck.ai), and data processing pipelines using Perl, Go, and Node.js. Requires 7+ years backend experience, product acumen, AI agent tooling familiarity, and mentorship capability. Offers $178,500 USD + stock; fully remote globally including US; profitable, 300+ employee privacy-first company.

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search and browser company, is hiring a Director of Data Science to lead their data science functional team. You'll oversee multiple data scientists and projects spanning search, instant answers, AI, and revenue optimization, mentoring experienced analysts while guiding statistical modeling, experiment design, and classifier development in a privacy-constrained environment. The role requires 10+ years in data science/ML engineering with 4+ years of team leadership, expert-level production deployment skills in Python, advanced SQL and columnar database knowledge, strong LLM/AI experience including fine-tuning and experiment design, plus the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for executives and drive organizational data culture. DuckDuckGo is profitable with $100m+ annual revenue and a remote-first team of 300+, offering $243,800 USD annually plus stock options with transparent compensation across levels. The position requires attending two in-person company events yearly (all-hands and team retreat, 4-5 days each) and passing a background check—a meaningful commitment for a fully remote role.

Director, Business Development at DuckDuckGo, a profitable online protection company with 300+ remote-first team members, will lead the company's most complex AI partnerships and drive strategy around deals with model providers, infrastructure partners, and emerging agentic ecosystem players. Key responsibilities include sourcing and negotiating high-impact partnerships that shape Duck.ai and AI-powered products, managing a portfolio of competing and complementary provider relationships, and working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Finance to structure novel deals where product, economics, and strategy must be figured out together. Required experience includes 10+ years in Business Development or Strategic Partnerships, 5+ years leading cross-functional partnership projects with legal and engineering, deep familiarity with the AI/LLM ecosystem and consumer product integration, and demonstrated success closing complex product partnerships end-to-end with real technical complexity. The role offers $243,800 USD annually plus stock options with transparent, location-independent compensation, though health benefits are US-only; the company emphasizes ownership, inclusivity, and empowered project management. Must be based in the US and comfortable traveling 2x yearly for all-hands and team retreats; this role requires self-sufficiency on commercial details, ability to navigate competing strategic tradeoffs, and quick trust-building across internal and external stakeholders.