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 latest — Privacy Pro. 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

In this role you will lead the team that builds and evolves the core web platform powering our private browsers on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Your team’s work ensures the browsers are fast, stable, and private by design. You will define the architecture that enables product teams to deliver innovative features with confidence, while reducing fragmentation and breakage across platforms. This is a leadership role at the intersection of browser engines, platform integration, and privacy innovation, directly influencing how millions of people experience a safer web.

About You

• 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 with a strong focus on metrics and impact.

• 10+ years experience leading teams of technically strong developers working on large, complex consumer-facing products, desktop in particular.

• Proven leadership experience across multiple consumer-facing products — you've made critical decisions that have broad, positive, and cascading impacts.

• 4+ years experience in senior leadership roles (Director, VP) including people management, coaching, and mentoring experience.

• Proven experience of leading technical teams through periods of rapid growth and scaling

• Direct experience with browsers - Chromium, WebKit, or WebView development

• Recent experience defining and driving technical work end-to-end on large-scale (modern C++14 or more recent) C++ codebases

• Experience with other modern languages (C#, Swift, Kotlin, Rust)

• Experience developing software for Mobile platforms or Desktop (Android/iOS/Windows)

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, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

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