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DuckDuckGo
About DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo offers a private search engine, web browsers for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, a privacy subscription and Duck.ai, which lets users chat privately with several AI models. Its remote-first team of more than 400 has one security opening, the Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform, a remote role in engineering. Ten openings appear on its board in total.
From its own postings
, CyberJobs.cc shows 1 security opening at DuckDuckGo.
DuckDuckGo security openings
Read 13 Nov 2026, 04:08 UTCComparable openings elsewhere
The same specialty at other employers.
Cyber Threat Intelligence SME (shows the role here)
micro1 · Threat Intel & Research · Remote· 3w agoDetails
$70–$110/hrBackend Security Engineer (shows the role here)
micro1 · Security Engineering · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$30–$100/hr
Application Security Engineer – CVE & Vulnerability Research (shows the role here)
Anyone AI · Offensive Security · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$65/hr- $40–$80/hr
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- $190,500/yr
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DuckDuckGo roles, country by country
Where DuckDuckGo takes applicants, with the number of open roles for each country.
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Working at DuckDuckGo
Gabriel Weinberg founded DuckDuckGo in 2008; the privately held company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, and says it has been profitable since 2014. Its security postings state Stated per posting (from its own postings).
1 security role open at the last read1 open role at DuckDuckGo, confirmed on its careers system 13 Nov 2026.
Full-time remote employee role; pay is uniform within each level and region.
The browser security role is remote, and no single country is named for it.
Honest catches
- The salary note here is from its own postings rather than read from current postings, so use it as a guide, not as an offer.
Salaries at DuckDuckGo
From its own postings · as of 2026-11-11Recorded salary note, from its own postings, dated 2026-11-11
For this role the posting gives $190,500 per year (12 Nov 2026), the figure DuckDuckGo sets for US-based staff at that level, plus stock options.
1 of its 1 open roles give a salary, not enough to call any figure typical of DuckDuckGo, so the note above stands. By specialty:
Specialties DuckDuckGo hires in
Open a specialty for its day-to-day work, the other employers hiring for it and its salary band.
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From the forum
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DuckDuckGo: common questions
What salary does DuckDuckGo offer security staff?
Stated per posting. For this role the posting gives $190,500 per year (12 Nov 2026), the figure DuckDuckGo sets for US-based staff at that level, plus stock options.
What sort of company is DuckDuckGo?
Gabriel Weinberg founded DuckDuckGo in 2008; the privately held company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, and says it has been profitable since 2014.
What is it like to work in security at DuckDuckGo?
Its security postings state Stated per posting (from its own postings). As a software company, its in-house team protects its product, customers and staff.
What kind of employment are DuckDuckGo's security roles?
Full-time remote employee role; pay is uniform within each level and region.
Where are DuckDuckGo's security jobs based?
The browser security role is remote, and no single country is named for it.
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