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Senior Privacy Engineer

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2008H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

North America

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$178.5K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor DegreeEnglishJavaScriptNode.jsPerlPythonGo

Job Description

Senior Privacy Engineer

DuckDuckGo

• 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.

Job 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

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