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 on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription.
We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.
ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place.
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 Working on the Security Functional Team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our security capabilities keep pace with our rapid product development, including our expanding AI offerings like Duck.
ai and agentic browsing, directly protecting our users across all our products.
You'll also maintain incident detection and response capabilities for the company, and work on related projects.
Recent projects include: Browser and sync security audits SERP security mitigations Agentic browser hardening As a Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform, you'll harden our agentic browsing and DuckAI experiences against emerging threats (like prompt injection), conduct browser and sync security audits (special pages, DuckAI integrations, password manager, etc.
), execute on SERP security mitigations (XSS prevention, tooling development to help engineers write safer code), build and maintain harnesses that get security fixes out automatically, manage application security scanning infrastructure setup, deliver on internal red-team operations (simulated attack scenarios), support security triage, and more!.