Base Salary
$153k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate Kubernetes-based compute primitives for production workloads 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 platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering pragmatic production solutions.
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals, including networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching, and storage.
- Production systems experience through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with infrastructure management tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and runbook writing.
- 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: production infrastructure experience 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.
Benefits
- Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
- Employee benefits supporting holistic well-being are provided.
- Interview accommodations are available upon request.
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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.