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Senior Privacy Engineer

Location: Remote · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Senior · Posted: June 19, 2026 · Verified: Oct 5, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Senior Privacy Engineer role leads complex projects on the Privacy Functional Team, focusing on protecting user privacy across DuckDuckGo's products. Responsibilities include designing systems to improve search indexes and AI features without compromising privacy, building features on the Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging threats, and implementing/maintaining privacy features like Web Tracking and Email Protections. The role requires proficiency in Go, Node.js, Python, or Perl, and involves owning major privacy technology components, participating in privacy reviews, and mentoring other engineers.
Source & Transparency: This position was structured directly from the publicly accessible career portal of DuckDuckGo. Details on the employer’s original job posting are authoritative. Polaris7 charges no placement fees and conducts no candidate screening.

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