Platform Engineer II

TrulyHired; New York (NY); On-site; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Educational stipends

Job summary

Duolingo's platform team is seeking a Platform Engineer II to improve how engineers build and run services, ensuring a reliable compute platform at scale for our learners.

You'll work on Kubernetes-based primitives, GitOps pipelines, and multi-cloud operations, collaborating with engineers across teams to ship features safely and effectively while writing clear docs and runbooks. This role also emphasizes on-call readiness and incident management to maintain reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience delivering production-grade distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps patterns.
• Experience with multi-cloud or cloud providers.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core compute primitives powering production workloads.
• Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production with GitOps.
• Define SLOs, dashboards, and runbooks; participate in on-call.
• Turn platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Linux

Distributed systems

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Istio

Job description

Platform Engineer II Full Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission, and thats where you come in!

At Duolingo, youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems , running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. Youll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role...

As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, youll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers.

The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence.

You will...

• Build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, across different regions and cloud providers.
• Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production by evolving our GitOps and deployment patterns, making rollouts safer and faster.
• Raise the operational bar: define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response to keep the platform dependable.
• Enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.

You have...

• Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environments.
• Experience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts).
• Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work).
• Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Clear written and verbal communication skillscomfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teams.
• Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation

Exceptional candidates will have...

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
• Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliable.
• Experience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies).

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range

$153,000-$207,000 USD

Benefits

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Accommodations

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact [email protected] .

Equal Employment Opportunity

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