1 month ago
Base Salary
$153k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core compute primitives for production workloads using Kubernetes across regions and cloud providers.
- Improve commit-to-production delivery pipelines through GitOps and safer, faster deployment patterns.
- Define SLOs, build dashboards and alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call and incident response.
- Create reusable abstractions that enable effective self-service of platform capabilities.
- Collaborate across teams and communicate clearly through documentation and operational runbooks.
Requirements
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability and experience delivering pragmatic solutions in production.
- Experience with distributed-systems fundamentals, including networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, and caching or storage concepts.
- Production systems experience gained through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work.
- Experience with one or more CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-management tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: Experience managing production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
- Preferred: Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and service mesh or zero-trust networking patterns such as Istio mTLS, traffic management, and authorization policies.
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About Duolingo
Duolingo builds a mobile-first platform for learning languages and basic skills, sold via a freemium app with ads and a subscription. It also operates the Duolingo English Test, an online, proctored language proficiency exam accepted by thousands of institutions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, the company is publicly traded on Nasdaq (DUOL) and is expanding into subjects like math and early literacy.