Senior Web Compatibility Engineer

Job Description

Who We Are

Your Team and Role

Reverse-engineering how sites detect our privacy protections and building countermeasures that keep pages working

Building LLM agent pipelines that automatically reproduce and triage reported site breakage

About You

Advanced ability to reverse-engineer obfuscated third-party code and reduce issues to minimal test cases.

Passion for hunting elusive bugs and tracing them to their root cause.

Interest in automating repetitive work and building agentic tooling that multiplies the team's impact.

Experience triaging issues, leading incident response, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience shipping code beyond the web, like native or desktop clients.

Ability to lead complex, ambiguous projects with little to no oversight.

Compensation

$178,500 USD annually and stock options.Compensation is identical within professional levels , regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. This program does not extend to team members located in other countries, such as Canada or the UK.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Hiring Process

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any typeon 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 our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that 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 send an email to

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