Principal Site Reliability Engineer, DuckDuckGo
$242k
+ Stock options
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Online privacy tools
Job no longer available
Online privacy tools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$242k
+ Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in SRE focused roles responsible for supporting, scaling and ensuring reliability of large-scale end-to-end infrastructures
- 4+ years of experience in roles of comparable seniority (Principal, Director, etc.) with a proven track record of proposing and executing strategic infrastructure work
- Ability to root cause sources of instability of high-traffic, distributed systems
- Skilled at managing complex solutions and delivering in pragmatic ways
- Deep experience working with Linux and web technologies
- Experience participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation for large-scale deployment
- Advanced programming experience, preferably in a high-level language like Perl or Python
- Ability to provide technical advisory for other engineers to help them grow and deliver on faster
What the job involves
- In this highly technical role, you'll act as a hands-on leader and engineering partner for one of the key company strategic objectives (search or similar), applying pragmatism and navigating competing interests to help us execute on our vision with urgency. While focusing on hands-on technical work, you'll also project advise other engineers on the SRE team and beyond
- You'll dive deep into our stack to understand and contain complex systems and user interactions while keeping privacy at the forefront. You'll help determine the future technical direction of our stack with an effort to improve reliability and performance
- Through close collaboration with developers, you'll triage production issues and determine appropriate remediation including code changes and performance considerations
- You'll participate in the SRE on-call rotation and the full development cycle across technical design, implementation, QA, review, and release
Application process
- A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without your consent. DuckDuckGo believe 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, wherever.
The company's app is now 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 roll out of a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
28% female employees
30% employee growth in 12 months
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.
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
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Founders
Gabriel Weinberg
(CEO)Studied Physics at MIT. Previously co-author of Traction and Super Thinking.
Diversity & 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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