Director of Site Reliability Engineering (Remote-First)

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 207,000 - 280,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

DuckDuckGo is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to own reliability for our large-scale, privacy-first platforms. You will lead a distributed team, drive automation, and partner with software engineers to triage production issues and improve performance.

This remote-first role offers compensation around $243,800 USD annually with stock options and US-based benefits eligibility. You will operate in a 24x7 on-call environment, shaping the future technical direction of our

Qualifications

10+ years relevant professional experience in reliability, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering, including 4+ years leading SRE teams.
Experience participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation for a large-scale deployment.
Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
Proficient in AI-driven development, including designing and implementing agentic workflows
Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
Experience developing effective tools, services, alerts, and responses to identify and address reliability risks.
Investigative ability to root-cause sources of instability in high-traffic, distributed systems.
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 the goal of improving reliability and performance.
Advanced programming skills enabling close partnership with software engineers to triage production issues and identify appropriate remediation, including code changes and performance considerations.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end reliability for large-scale deployments and complex systems.
Lead and mentor Site Reliability Engineering teams in a remote-first environment.
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for production incidents and postmortems.
Collaborate with software engineers to triage production issues and implement fixes.
Develop automation around infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
Shape the future technical direction of deployments with a focus on reliability and performance.