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 on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place. 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 Site Reliability Team, you'll help build and maintain world-class infrastructure to meet the needs of millions of users protecting their privacy online. You'll utilize high-level languages like Perl, Go, TypeScript, or Python and work on related projects. Recent projects include:Ensuring our Duck.ai product meets our reliability standards and minimizing user friction on failuresScaling up our own index infrastructure to handle billions of documentsCreate anti fraud verifications that respect users privacy As Director, Site Reliability Engineering, you'll dive deep into complex operational challenges, including software, systems, automation, and process analysis. We are looking for candidates who can read, write, troubleshoot, and deploy all types of software to help us tackle the reliability challenges of large-scale deployments. About You10+ 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. Pr