Who We Are

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place!

Your Team and Role

Working on the CloudOps Functional Team, you'll accelerate projects across the company by providing infrastructure, tools, and processes that help DuckDuckGo team members build great products fast. You will use tools such as Terraform, Chef/Ansible, Docker, Github actions, bash/perl, nginx, ELK, Grafana, Azure/AWS. Recent projects include:

Migrating internal VMs to the latest Ubuntu LTS
Dockerizing applications
Building infrastructure for greenfield projects so developers can create and deploy applications.

As a Senior CloudOps Engineer, you'll combine Infrastructure Engineering and Developer Operations, offering the opportunity to collaborate with team members at all levels to provide cloud-based infrastructure, tooling, and automation that accelerates our objectives. You'll also be part of the team's shared on-call rotation and responsible for triaging and resolving employee support requests related to infrastructure and DevOps. You'll leverage your troubleshooting and debugging experience to solve problems, big and small.

About You

7+ years of experience in software/infrastructure/DevOps engineering.
Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
Intermediate programming ability in a high-level language (e.g., Perl or Python).
Experience and comfort on the Linux command line.
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
Passion for helping people and enabling them to solve problems.

Compensation

$178,500