Duolingo · 1 hour ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$178K/yr - $240K/yr
3+ years expDuolingo is on a mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with product and platform engineering teams to ensure the quality and scalability of Duolingo’s distributed systems and products.
E-LearningEducationLanguage LearningMobile Apps
Responsibilities
Collaborate with internal teams to identify sources of instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence
Own core infrastructure (i.e understand, diagnose, and debug these systems in production)
Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms/frameworks, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analysis
Maintain and document sustainable postmortem/incident response practices
Advocate for and implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and velocity
Reduce the burden of toil with iterative development of tooling and automation
Collaborate with engineering teams to release new features and become an authority on our services
Qualification
Required
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)
Preferred
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
Company
Duolingo
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$183.3MKey Investors
General AtlanticCapitalGDrive Capital
2021-07-28IPO
2020-11-18Series H· $35M
2020-04-14Series G· $10M
Leadership Team
Luis von Ahn
CEO, co-Founder & Board Member
Severin Hacker
CTO & Cofounder
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