Base Salary
$183k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence.
- Support, diagnose, and debug core infrastructure in production.
- Provide system design consulting and develop software platforms, frameworks, tooling, and automation.
- Conduct launch reviews and root cause analyses.
- Maintain and document sustainable postmortem and incident response practices.
- Implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on feature releases and develop deep expertise in Duolingo services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps for a product with millions of users.
- Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
- Understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration technologies.
- Exceptional candidates may have experience improving automation and tooling, driving incident response improvements, and troubleshooting reliability issues in Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases.
Benefits
- Employee benefits supporting holistic well-being are provided.
- Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
Tech Stack
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About Duolingo
Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Learning a new language is hard, but staying motivated is often the hardest part. That’s why we use fun, bite-sized, game-like lessons designed to keep you engaged and to drive real learning outcomes. Our approach is grounded in efficacy: we continuously test and improve our methods to ensure learners make meaningful progress. We also believe in democratizing education by offering an effective, high-quality free product. Developing a great free product is essential to our mission, ensuring that anyone with a smartphone can access learning that works. When it comes to utilizing AI tools, we have a golden rule: we use it when it clearly improves outcomes for learners. We don’t use it as a shortcut or a replacement for people, but as a tool to enhance learning experiences and efficacy. Duolingo has been named to: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Education Company (2026, 2022), Apple Design Award (2023), TIME100 Most Influential Companies (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), among others.