Senior Site Reliability Engineer
DuolingoNew York, New York, 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
Duolingo is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their team and work on developing education for millions of learners around the world. The role involves collaborating with product and platform engineering teams to ensure the quality and scalability of Duolingo's distributed systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience within 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
- Equity compensation
- World-class benefits
- Multi-level salary range
