Who We Are

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place!

Your Team and Role

As a leader on core DuckDuckGo products, you'll take ownership of complex problems impacting tens of millions of people. You'll balance building things right with swiftly shipping things that matter, always working towards raising the standard of trust online.

You'll grow and accelerate a team of 30 engineers. That means identifying what's slowing us down and fixing it, coaching engineers and leaders to tackle bigger problems, driving hiring decisions, and evolving how we work as we scale. You'll hold the team accountable while creating conditions for them to succeed.

Day-to-day, you'll ground technical decisions in data, navigate complex projects with stakeholders company-wide, and shape roadmaps aligning backend work to top priorities across multiple company objectives. You'll advise on the hardest problems and make swift calls when projects need direction.

Example projects:

1. Validate and ship a complex cross-team project globally

2. Define the optimal balance of privacy-respecting ads on search results

3. Explore new techniques to expand instant answer triggering

   About You

1. 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years in engineering leadership, including managing managers

2. Expert-level backend systems knowledge with hands-on technical capability

3. Moderate data analysis and machine learning experience

4. Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisive calls on complex problems with stakeholders company-wide

5. A hands-on leader who is excited to contribute directly to problem solving and get into the weeds when necessary.

6. Track record of coaching engineers and leaders, driving hiring decisions, and evolving team processes as organizations scale

7. Experience setting multi-project roadmaps aligned to business priorities and swiftly adapting when priorities shift

8. Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online

Compensation

$243,800 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo, envision your future role here, and find out more about how we hire.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status,