Hello, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Web privateness corporate for everybody who desires to take again their privateness now. For over a decade, we’ve been construction our product, together with new privateness generation, and dealing with policymakers to make on-line privateness easy and out there for all.
Our app is now downloaded greater than 75M occasions a yr, and our non-public seek engine packaged with it has turn into the #2 seek engine on cell in over 21 international locations, together with the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been successful since 2014 with income lately exceeding $100 million a yr! Now, we’re rolling out a set of recent privateness answers, together with Electronic mail Coverage, App Monitoring Coverage and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Home windows.
We’re in search of a Senior Website Reliability Engineer to lend a hand form our all-in-one privateness resolution and sign up for our challenge to turn the arena that protective your privateness on-line may also be easy.
As a part of our rising staff, you’ll be devoted to making improvements to and scaling the reliability of our end-to-end infrastructure. We dive deep into complicated operational demanding situations, together with instrument, programs, automation, and procedure research. We’re in search of applicants that may learn, write, troubleshoot, and deploy all kinds of instrument as we are facing distinctive demanding situations in privateness and scale.
We empower our staff to be self-directed and self-motivated of their paintings. In the event you’d thrive in that setting, and our core values resonate with you — construct consider, query assumptions, and validate course — you’ll are compatible proper in!
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Lead tasks from proposal via postmortem, assessing imprecise issues, proposing high-impact answers, and executing them towards a suite of luck standards.
- Increase efficient equipment, products and services, signals, and responses to spot and cope with reliability dangers.
- Paintings carefully with seek engineers to triage manufacturing problems and determine suitable remediation, together with code adjustments and function concerns.
- Take part in our on-call rotation; triage and cope with reliability problems that arise in manufacturing.
- Lend a hand determine the longer term technical course of our deployment with an effort to support reliability and function.
- We predict SRE staff individuals to take care of on-call shifts. These days those are weekly rotations overlaying US Jap Time Zone 0000-1200 and 1200-0000 – precise shift schedules could also be matter to switch in long run, however lately we think you to be on name for 1 week each and every 4-5 weeks.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- A minimum of 7 years of engineering enjoy, with 5+ years thinking about tackling the reliability demanding situations of large-scale deployments and high-traffic, allotted programs
- Enjoy with manufacturing troubleshooting, together with: allotted programs, code, garage, networking, and working programs
- Reasonable-to-advanced programming enjoy, ideally in a high-level language like Perl or Python
- Enjoy taking part in a 24×7 on-call rotation for a large-scale deployment.
- Enjoy configuring and troubleshooting Linux and NGiNX
- Sturdy organizational talents, you’ve gotten a watch for element and don’t seem to be afraid to make use of it!
- Efficient venture control talents; you’ve gotten effectively introduced tasks from inception to manufacturing
- Sturdy conversation talents: You obviously articulate, in verbal and written conversation, your suggestions and selections
- At ease offering comments to an array of stakeholders, each inner and exterior
- Enjoy with electronic mail infrastructure at scale is a plus
How We Will Make stronger You:
Our core values — construct consider, query assumptions, and validate course — underpin how we paintings day by day and the enhance we give our staff individuals. We try to empower our staff individuals to be self-directed and self-motivated of their paintings.
- Faraway First, All the time: We’ve at all times been an absolutely allotted corporate with staff individuals everywhere the arena. We consider you to get your paintings accomplished anywhere, each time.
- Dedication to Private Enlargement: Each staff member has an annual finances of $1,250 USD to spend money on their skilled building. Each staff member additionally has a devoted Occupation Marketing consultant, who serves as a information that can assist you broaden your strengths, determine your motivations, and perceive your alternatives for enlargement.
- Management: We have now many various kinds of leaders and conceivable combos of management roles, so you’ll develop your profession in some way that aligns highest with your individual targets. You’ll be able to search further management roles by means of being immediately liable for tasks, taking possession of spaces of the corporate, creating and keeping up inner processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
- Paintings/Existence Stability: Staff individuals have the liberty and versatility to prepare their very own paintings schedules. We wish you to thrive each out and in of the administrative center. We consider you to make use of excellent judgment and make the effort off that you want to deliver your highest self to paintings.
Annual reimbursement: $170,000 USD and inventory choices. Reimbursement is identical inside a qualified point, irrespective of geographic location or purposeful house, and the reimbursement for each and every skilled point is clear around the group.
Range, Fairness, and Inclusion:
DuckDuckGo supplies equivalent paintings alternatives to all staff individuals and candidates, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any sort at the foundation of race, colour, ethnicity, caste, faith, age, intercourse (together with being pregnant), nationwide beginning, incapacity standing, genetics, safe veteran standing, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, or another function safe by means of our insurance policies or federal, state, or native rules.
We need to make certain that our hiring procedure is obtainable. If you want cheap lodging for any a part of the appliance procedure as a result of a clinical situation or incapacity, please ship an electronic mail to c[email protected] to tell us the character of your request.
In the event you suppose it’s possible you’ll thrive on this setting, we would really like to listen to from you.
Please notice that:
- Occasionally we join up! Be expecting to trip a minimum of two occasions a yr: as soon as for our all-hands meetup and once more for a staff retreat (each and every round 4-5 days). Whilst extenuating cases might influence attendance, everyone seems to be strongly inspired to wait.
- Whilst we provide a versatile paintings association with out a core hours, be expecting a mean full-time dedication of 40 hours every week.
- A a hit candidate can be matter to a background take a look at and will have to obtain adequate result of the similar, as a situation of becoming a member of the staff.
- Via making use of for this position, you verify that every one knowledge submitted is correct and whole. You additional recognize that offering false or fraudulent knowledge all through the appliance procedure is motive for denial of an be offering, revocation of any present be offering, or different opposed motion, as much as and together with termination after the beginning of your graduation of labor.
