# Privacy Engineering Director

**Company:** [DuckDuckGo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duckduckgo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $244k – $244k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Privacy Engineering, Privacy Reviews, Privacy Audits, Data Minimization, Privacy-Preserving Technical Solutions, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Process Automation, Privacy Strategy, Infrastructure Tools, Audit Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-06-19

> Lead privacy engineering initiatives across private browsing, search, and agentic products. Own complex privacy projects from definition to delivery, evolve review processes, and grow privacy engineering talent.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery across private browsing, private search, and agentic computing products
- Lead critical privacy initiatives using deep expertise in privacy engineering, audit frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration
- Evolve privacy triage and review processes and build automation that reduces engineering toil
- Grow the next generation of privacy engineers
- Contribute significantly to privacy strategy across the company

## Requirements
- 10+ years experience leading privacy reviews, audits, or technical privacy programs at a consumer-facing product company with a large (1M+) user base
- 4+ years privacy engineering leadership experience building infrastructure tools, data minimization systems, or equivalent privacy-preserving technical solutions
- Director, Head of, or VP-level experience with direct management and hiring responsibilities and meaningful technical scope
- Proven ability to DRI high-complexity, cross-functional projects with minimal direction
- Strong communication skills with a track record of translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions across competing stakeholder needs
- Experience improving organizational processes — identifying bottlenecks, implementing automation, and building scalable review systems
- Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building a privacy engineering framework for agentic browsing products
- Experience designing technical solutions to enable private search index capabilities while preserving strict privacy guarantees at scale

## Compensation & Benefits
- $243,800 USD annually and stock options
- Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team
- Company-sponsored health benefits limited to team members based in the United States
- Paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances

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