Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

In this highly technical role, you'll act as a hands-on leader and engineering partner for one of our key strategic objectives (search or similar), pragmatically navigating cross-functional interests to help us execute our vision with urgency.

You'll focus on hands-on technical work, diving deep into our stack to understand and optimize complex systems and user interactions, participate in SRE on-call rotation, triaging production issues and defining appropriate remediation, and help shape the future technical direction of our stack, all while keeping privacy at the forefront as you improve reliability and performance.

You'll also advise engineers on the SRE team and beyond, nurturing their growth and collaborating closely with other developers throughout the end-to-end development cycle across technical design, implementation, QA, review, and release.

What You Will Bring To DuckDuckGo
 

• 10+ years of experience in SRE focused roles responsible for supporting, scaling and ensuring reliability of large-scale end-to-end infrastructures.
• Ability to root cause sources of instability of high-traffic, distributed systems.
• Skilled at managing complex solutions and delivering in pragmatic ways.
• Deep experience working with Linux and web technologies.
• Experience participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation for large-scale deployment.
• Advanced programming experience, preferably in a high-level language like Perl or Python.
• Ability to provide technical advisory for other engineers to help them grow and deliver high quality work faster.