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DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178,500 - $320,000 USD + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Engineering Director, Browser Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

VP, Business Development - $320,000 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/276ae352-55b5-4fb2-9b9...

Director, Product Management - - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/2a379a3e-ee10-45d2-927...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178,500 - $320,000 USD + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/9f845ea5-4bdd-432a-826...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Engineering Director, Browser Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

VP, Business Development - $320,000 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/276ae352-55b5-4fb2-9b9...

Director, Product Management - - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/2a379a3e-ee10-45d2-927...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178,500 - $320,000 USD + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/9f845ea5-4bdd-432a-826...

Engineering Director, Windows - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/42272bd1-c863-478d-827...

Engineering Director, Web Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

Engineering Director, Browser Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Senior Business Development Manager - $200,267 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/6a4caa8b-825c-44e3-be3...

VP, Business Development - $320,000 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/276ae352-55b5-4fb2-9b9...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


I would advise people to steer clear for applying to DuckDuckGo.

They require two take home projects and poor communication/no feedback on projects submitted. Their glassdoor is adorned with similar feedback.


They've also been hiring for years, Cannonical and DuckDuckGo need to be banned from jobs' forums.


I got rejected within 30 minutes of applying so I guess I'm in the clear?


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k - $243,800 + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/9f845ea5-4bdd-432a-826...

Engineering Director, Windows - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/42272bd1-c863-478d-827...

Engineering Director, Web Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Senior Business Development Manager - $200,267 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/6a4caa8b-825c-44e3-be3...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Android Engineer - - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Director, Product Management - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/2a379a3e-ee10-45d2-927...

Senior Frontend Engineer, React/Typescript - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/5d3e230c-ecf4-407a-a3a...

Tax Accountant (US) - $87,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/7b255a8f-91aa-4a0e-b02...

https://duckduckgo.com/car


> https://duckduckgo.com/car

For me this link just treats "car" as a search query. https://duckduckgo.com/hiring seems to work, though.


Sorry about that. It looks like I ran out of characters but it didn’t give me an error, it just cut off our careers page link.

www.DuckDuckGo.com/careers


Seems like the GP may have forgotten to paste/type the entire URL. https://duckduckgo.com/careers redirects to https://duckduckgo.com/hiring.


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people—many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Android Engineer - - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Product Designer (Senior, Lead or Principal) $178,500 - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/06c4084f-8044-4837-b1d...

Senior Frontend Engineer, React/Typescript - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/5d3e230c-ecf4-407a-a3a...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


> Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App

This should really be considered spam at this point.


Why...? Are you saying that Windows native apps dead, or is there some more specific story here?


We've filled some positions and are still hiring more engineers for this team. It's a role that we'll have open for a good while.


Any way to reach out to a person? The system is rather opaque and given you've had this open for a while I'd love to get any insight


The Product Designer link above does not work...


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Most of the software engineering positions have been repeating here for years because we've been continually hiring for them, scaling our whole team to now over 300 people — many of those hires have come through Hacker News. We've been improving our hiring process over time, and we know some good candidates may have fallen through the cracks. Some people who tried in the past have had success going through it again, and we still pay for hiring projects.

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Android Engineer - - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Product Designer (Senior, Lead or Principal) $178,500 - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/06c4084f-8044-4837-b1d...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Android Engineer - - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


The "Windows Desktop App" position from DDG is quite infamous here.

I did my own DD and found it has appeared in Ask HN threads since at least May 2023.

Beginning to side with others stating this position was never meant to be filled but rather serve as some +ve market indicator about DDG


Fake positions are the "kayfabe"[1] of HN's Who's Hiring.

They are a variation in the "Emperor's new clothes"[2]: everyone knows they're fake but no one should say it.

So, expect your comment to be removed. But thanks for doing it, anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes


We don’t have fake positions.


We’ve been continuously hiring for this position as we’ve been building up our Windows browser team and have found the positions relatively difficult to fill.


I don't know. DDG tried to headhunt me from a previous position a while ago for this. Perhaps they're simply building a large-ish team?


That’s correct.


Hi Bill, I had a brief exchange with you about the Windows role a couple of months ago and you encouraged me to apply and mentioned you would flag it with the DRI - but I got a rejection. How long should we wait before reapplying and do you auto-reject if we have a recent rejection at the CV phase?


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Growth Marketing Manager - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/ad8df011-718c-479c-839...

Technical Sourcer - $129,000 USD + equity - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0923821a-8d0b-4305-834...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


hey Bill, may I ask what happened to the recent senior backend role? Looks like the posting just disappeared after only few days.


We see overwhelming amount of interest each day a role is open on our site. In order to get through the applications (we read each one), they can't stay up for too long.

We might open the role back up next month for more applications, so keep an eye on next month's Who's Hiring post.


DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178.5k + equity

We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted.

Remote Open Roles at DuckDuckGo:

Senior Android Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/57eea673-2519-4afc-a9a...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Senior Brand Manager, Ad Production - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/87654e4d-2d1e-4a2d-a36...

https://duckduckgo.com/careers


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