Teams at DuckDuckGo

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

Lead and scale complex product partnerships end-to-end, sourcing, negotiating, and operationalizing strategic deals that enhance DuckDuckGo products (search, Duck.ai, subscriptions). Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to build first-of-their-kind integrations, create playbooks, manage partner portfolios, and drive distribution and user engagement for AI-related services.

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.