Engineering Director, DuckDuckGo
Backend
$243.8k
+ Equity. Salary benchmarked on US rates, may vary depending on location
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Privacy Protection
Posted today
Privacy Protection
201-500 employees
Posted today
$243.8k
+ Equity. Salary benchmarked on US rates, may vary depending on location
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years in engineering leadership, including managing managers
- Expert-level backend systems knowledge with hands-on technical capability
- Moderate data analysis and machine learning experience
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisive calls on complex problems with stakeholders company-wide
- A hands-on leader who is excited to contribute directly to problem solving and get into the weeds when necessary
- Track record of coaching engineers and leaders, driving hiring decisions, and evolving team processes as organizations scale
- Experience setting multi-project roadmaps aligned to business priorities and swiftly adapting when priorities shift
- Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online
- You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
- Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend
What the job involves
- 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:
- Validate and ship a complex cross-team project globally
- Define the optimal balance of privacy-respecting ads on search results
- Explore new techniques to expand instant answer triggering
- While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week
Application process
- A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team
Our take
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without their consent. DuckDuckGo believes the internet shouldn't be this invasive and that getting the privacy you deserve online should be an easily accessible option.
With the company's Privacy Essentials desktop browser extension for Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the mobile DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS & Android, users can block trackers, secure connections, and search anonymously, so they are protected on any device anywhere.
The company's app is downloaded more than 50M times a year, and its private search engine has become the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. DuckDuckGo's next steps include a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$59m
SERIES C
Aug 2018
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Office Setup: To help you get your office set up, we reimburse up to $1,250 USD to cover the purchase of office productivity items, such as desk, chair, computer monitors, keyboards, etc
- Co-working: Should you prefer to work from a co-working space, we reimburse the cost up to $500 USD per month
- Wellness Stipend: To promote your physical and mental health, we offer a Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000 USD per year
- Learning Stipend: To promote your professional development and reinforce our culture of self-directed learning and skill-building, we offer a Learning Stipend of up to $1,250 USD per year
- Charitable Donation Matching: We match on qualified charitable donations of up to $1,000 per year
- Assistance Program: We offer counseling services provided through Workplace Options to help you and your family manage life-stressors
- Company Events: We have annual company retreats, team meetups, and optional “work-ations” where you work with colleagues in various destinations around the world. Every quarter we hold 3-day long Hack Days, during which we work on whatever we want
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever
- Flexible Time Off: We trust you to use good judgment to take time off as needed so that you can be your best at work. Our CEO sets a good example by taking regular vacations and encouraging the rest of the team to do the same
- Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision (US Only) 🇺🇸
Company values
- Building trust - By building trust, we do right by our users and our staff
- Questioning assumptions - By questioning assumptions, we reject bias and elevate the quality of our work
- Validating direction - By validating direction, we grow fast and sustainably
Company HQ
Paoli, PA
Articles
Leadership
Gabriel Weinberg
(Founder & CEO)Studied Physics at MIT. Previously co-author of Traction and Super Thinking.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at DuckDuckGo
- At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. Having a diverse, inclusive, and equitable team is critical to achieving those goals
- Online privacy abuses make the Internet worse for everyone by weaponizing our personal data in ways that create exploitation, discrimination, polarization, and chilling effects, among other problems. We can't build world-class solutions to these problems without a world-class team. That is why we seek to recruit, retain, and support the continued growth of talented and high-performing people of all different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
- Our commitment to embracing diversity and empowering all team members is rooted in our core values: build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction. The willingness to validate direction by engaging in the sometimes uncomfortable process of questioning each other's assumptions and being questioned ourselves can only exist in a trusted space — an inclusive and welcoming environment — which is critical to rejecting bias and building a world-class, globally-used product
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