Senior C++ Engineer

DuckDuckGo, Remote +33

What you need

Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact, 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 software engineering experience
Advanced modern C++ expertise (C++23 or newer), including memory management, concurrency, and performance profiling
Experience driving technical work end-to-end on large-scale C++ codebases
Comfort with large build systems, debuggers, and profilers
Experience shipping software to a large consumer audience
Solid computer science foundation (algorithms and data structures)
Bonus: Windows development experience

DuckDuckGo, Remote +33

$191K

a year

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Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact, 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 software engineering experience
Advanced modern C++ expertise (C++23 or newer), including memory management, concurrency, and performance profiling
Experience driving technical work end-to-end on large-scale C++ codebases
Comfort with large build systems, debuggers, and profilers
Experience shipping software to a large consumer audience
Solid computer science foundation (algorithms and data structures)
Bonus: Windows development experience