Teams at DuckDuckGo

Leads site reliability engineering for large-scale, privacy-focused infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing SRE teams, solving complex software and systems reliability challenges, supporting 24x7 operations, troubleshooting distributed Linux and web systems, developing automation, improving observability and incident response, deploying applications with Docker, and shaping technical direction. The role also requires advanced programming, AI-driven development, agentic workflows, and ownership of high-impact projects from proposal through postmortem.

Lead high-complexity data science initiatives improving search ranking, retrieval, relevance, and evaluation. Develop and deploy production machine-learning and NLP solutions, investigate LLM-based ranking features, optimize SQL queries, and work with sparse privacy-preserving data. Define strategies for ambiguous problems, guide other data scientists, collaborate with product teams, and own projects from scoping through production.

Lead and own major components of DuckDuckGo's privacy technology using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl. Design and implement privacy features, improve search and AI features without compromising privacy, build tracker-detection features, participate in privacy reviews and audits, and mentor engineers over time.