Engineering Director, DuckDuckGo
Site Reliability
$242k
+ Stock options
Docker
Python
Linux
Perl
Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
Privacy Protection
Job no longer available
Privacy Protection
201-500 employees
B2CPrivacySaaS
Job no longer available
$242k
+ Stock options
Docker
Python
Linux
Perl
Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
201-500 employees
B2CPrivacySaaS
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in leadership SRE roles (Director, Head, VP, etc.) with a proven track record of proposing and executing strategic infrastructure work
- 10+ years of experience in SRE focused roles responsible for supporting, scaling, and ensuring reliability of large-scale, end-to-end infrastructure
- Experience with leading, scaling, and developing teams of 15+ SRE engineers
- Experience in participating, leading, and improving a 24x7 on-call rotation for large-scale deployments
- Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with a proven track record of shaping product and infrastructure roadmaps
- Ability and willingness to dive deep into the code to root cause sources of instability in high-traffic, distributed systems
- Advanced programming experience, preferably in a high level language like Perl or Python
- Deep experience administering and troubleshooting Linux and web technologies
- Ability to implement automation around infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to prioritize efficiency, scalability, and reliability
- Foresight to help identify the future technical direction of our deployment with a focus on improving reliability and performance
- Ability to leverage cloud-native services and architectures to enhance reliability and scalability, with hands-on experience packaging and deploying applications using Docker and Docker Compose
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Director, Site Reliability to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple
- In this technical role, you will become a leader of DuckDuckGo’s Site Reliability Engineering team
- You'll assume responsibility for improving the team’s processes, practices and people — developing senior engineers and ensuring that the SRE function plays a strategic role in DuckDuckGo's growth
- You will also lead and own hiring for the team, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the funnel to improve hiring pace and outcomes
- Acting as a technical partner to several strategic product and infrastructure objectives, you'll contribute to their directionand roadmaps, driving resourcing and prioritization discussions, and providing project advisory to senior engineers
- You'll also join and co-own on-call rotation, tackling incidents in the trenches, identifying trends, and analyzing hotspots with the goal of significantly improving incident response time (MTTR)
Our take
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without their consent. DuckDuckGo believes the internet shouldn't be this invasive and that getting the privacy you deserve online should be an easily accessible option.
With the company's Privacy Essentials desktop browser extension for Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the mobile DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS & Android, users can block trackers, secure connections, and search anonymously, so they are protected on any device anywhere.
The company's app is downloaded more than 50M times a year, and its private search engine has become the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. DuckDuckGo's next steps include a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$59m
SERIES C
Aug 2018
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Office Setup: To help you get your office set up, we reimburse up to $1,250 USD to cover the purchase of office productivity items, such as desk, chair, computer monitors, keyboards, etc
- Co-working: Should you prefer to work from a co-working space, we reimburse the cost up to $500 USD per month
- Wellness Stipend: To promote your physical and mental health, we offer a Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000 USD per year
- Learning Stipend: To promote your professional development and reinforce our culture of self-directed learning and skill-building, we offer a Learning Stipend of up to $1,250 USD per year
- Charitable Donation Matching: We match on qualified charitable donations of up to $1,000 per year
- Assistance Program: We offer counseling services provided through Workplace Options to help you and your family manage life-stressors
- Company Events: We have annual company retreats, team meetups, and optional “work-ations” where you work with colleagues in various destinations around the world. Every quarter we hold 3-day long Hack Days, during which we work on whatever we want
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever
- Flexible Time Off: We trust you to use good judgment to take time off as needed so that you can be your best at work. Our CEO sets a good example by taking regular vacations and encouraging the rest of the team to do the same
- Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision (US Only) 🇺🇸
Company values
- Building trust - By building trust, we do right by our users and our staff
- Questioning assumptions - By questioning assumptions, we reject bias and elevate the quality of our work
- Validating direction - By validating direction, we grow fast and sustainably
Company HQ
Paoli, PA
Articles
Leadership
Gabriel Weinberg
(Founder & CEO)Studied Physics at MIT. Previously co-author of Traction and Super Thinking.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at DuckDuckGo
- At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. Having a diverse, inclusive, and equitable team is critical to achieving those goals
- Online privacy abuses make the Internet worse for everyone by weaponizing our personal data in ways that create exploitation, discrimination, polarization, and chilling effects, among other problems. We can't build world-class solutions to these problems without a world-class team. That is why we seek to recruit, retain, and support the continued growth of talented and high-performing people of all different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
- Our commitment to embracing diversity and empowering all team members is rooted in our core values: build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction. The willingness to validate direction by engaging in the sometimes uncomfortable process of questioning each other's assumptions and being questioned ourselves can only exist in a trusted space — an inclusive and welcoming environment — which is critical to rejecting bias and building a world-class, globally-used product
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