Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.
Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we've been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
We’re looking for a Senior IT Ops Engineer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.
The Opportunity
In this role, your primary responsibility will be to provide exceptional IT and infrastructure support for all employees. You will work closely with team members at all levels to ensure smooth operations and contribute to the organization's overall success.
You will have the opportunity to take ownership and be responsible for areas that significantly impact DuckDuckGo's internal infrastructure and continuously improve and maintain them over time. This will involve application management tasks such as software updates, licensing, and billing. You will also handle account management responsibilities, including single sign-on (SSO) implementation, provisioning and de-provisioning of accounts, and managing permissions, ensuring everything is secure.
As part of a shared on-call rotation, you will triage and resolve employee support requests as they arise. You will have the opportunity to create automations that enhance the experience for the team and expedite their work processes. Your creativity and ability to find innovative solutions will be highly valued.
You will be expected to review and evaluate standard procedures and practices related to employee support, identifying areas of improvement and implementing changes that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
This role and team are vital to ensuring employees have the necessary support and resources to perform their roles effectively and efficiently.
What you will bring
- 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.
- 7+ years of IT operations experience, preferably in a remote work environment.
- Experience managing and supporting cloud and SaaS applications such as Office365 and GSuite.
- Experience with Azure Active Directory and SSO.
- Experience with device management (desktop and mobile), preferably in a remote work environment.
- Ability to remote troubleshoot on Mac OS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, and various applications, including Office.
- Experience with code as infrastructure (Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Terraform/etc).
- Intermediate programming ability in a high-level language (Perl/Python/etc).
- Experience and comfort on the Linux command line.
- Passion for helping people and a strong desire to be responsive, proactive, and efficient in addressing support tickets related to devices, hardware, software licensing, and updates.
- Ability to work efficiently, in an organized manner, and with attention to detail.
How We Will Support You
Our core values -- build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction -- underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
- Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
- Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
- Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.
We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide, which explains how we make your well-being a priority.
For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work.
Compensation
Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.
Hiring Process
Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request.
If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.
Please note that:
- Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
- While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
- A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
- By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
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