Engineering Director, Web Platform at DuckDuckGo

Engineering Director, Web Platform

Who We Are

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and a remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD. 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 projects from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you are 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 ensures the browsers are fast, stable, and private by design. You will define 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, complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
• Skilled at wrangling vague problems, proposing innovative solutions, and executing 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, with critical decisions that have broad, positive impact.
• 4+ years experience in senior leadership roles (Director, VP) including people management, coaching, and mentoring.
• Experience leading teams through 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 C++ codebases (modern C++14 or more recent).
• Experience with other modern languages such as C#, Swift, Kotlin, or Rust.
• Experience developing software for mobile platforms or desktop (Android, iOS, Windows).

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation: $243,800 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team, and 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 is 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 policy or law. We aim to ensure our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please email careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request.

Please Note

• You will 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 once for a team retreat, each around 4-5 days. While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• We offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, and an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week is expected.
• A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. Providing false or fraudulent information during the application process may be cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action up to and including termination after start of work.