Senior Site Reliability Engineer
DuolingoPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Posted July 31, 2025
177700 - 300000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Duolingo is a leading language education platform offering free, gamified lessons to make learning languages fun and accessible. The company provides language certification, mobile app development, and proficiency assessments, leveraging machine learning and data science for personalized learning experiences. Duolingo's innovative approach has earned it recognition as a top workplace for innovation and among the most downloaded apps in the App Store.
Job Description
Join Duolingo's mission to develop education for half a billion learners worldwide as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to ensure high-quality and scalable systems. Unlimited learning opportunities, mentorship, and collaboration with world-class minds.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in site reliability engineering/DevOps of a product with millions of users
- Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go
- Proficiency in networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, etc
- An understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc)
- Experience in improving automation and tooling to reduce service maintenance toil
- Proven experience driving improvements to incident response processes
- Experience assessing reliability and troubleshooting issues in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases
Benefits
- World-class benefits
- Equity compensation
