Director, Site Reliability Engineering

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DuckDuckGoTechnology
Japan, Slovakia, Spain, Czechia, Switzerland, Estonia, Singapore, Slovenia, Mexico, Portugal, USA, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Austria, Iceland, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Greece, Mauritius, UK, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Latvia, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, UruguayFull-TimeDirector
Salary$243,800 USD annually and stock options.
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years relevant professional experience in reliability, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering, including 4+ years leading SRE teams.
Required Skills
DockerPythonCloud ComputingTypeScriptGoLinuxDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience in reliability, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
  • 4+ years of experience leading SRE teams.
  • Experience participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation for a large-scale deployment.
  • Proficient in AI-driven development, including designing and implementing agentic workflows.
  • Deep experience administering and troubleshooting Linux and web technologies.
  • Ability to leverage cloud-native services and architectures for scalability and reliability.
  • Hands-on experience packaging and deploying applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
  • Advanced programming skills in high-level languages like Perl, Go, TypeScript, or Python.
  • Ability to lead complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
  • Successful background check.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure reliability for large-scale products like Duck.ai and minimize friction on failures.
  • Scale index infrastructure to handle billions of documents.
  • Create anti-fraud verifications while respecting user privacy.
  • Lead and collaborate on high-impact projects from proposal through postmortem.
  • Develop tools, services, alerts, and responses to identify and address reliability risks.
  • Implement automation for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
  • Partner with software engineers to triage production issues and perform code changes.
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