Senior Enterprise Engineer — Identity & Automation Leader

Duolingo; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 162,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo’s Enterprise Engineering team builds and operates internal platforms, identity systems, and automation to empower employee experiences. As a Senior Enterprise Engineer, you design high‑impact projects across identity and access, SaaS integrations, and lifecycle automation for the organization.

You will partner with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform teams to reduce toil, improve reliability, and codify policies into maintainable workflows and code.

Qualifications

• Proven impact shipping multi-stakeholder engineering projects that improve reliability, efficiency, or employee experience at scale.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD to manage identity, SaaS, or internal platform configuration.
• Strong background in identity and access management concepts and integrations across enterprise systems.
• Proficiency building automations and internal tooling that integrate with APIs for systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian.
• Operational excellence: you define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts/runbooks, and contribute to on-call/incident response for internal platforms.
• Clear, concise communication and documentation skills; you collaborate effectively with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform partners.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement foundational enterprise services (e.g., identity and access management, SaaS integrations, MDM/endpoint, internal tooling) with reliability, security, and scalability in mind.
• Build and evolve infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and configuration-as-code patterns; contribute modules/templates and participate in reviews to raise the engineering bar across Enterprise Engineering.
• Automate employee lifecycle workflows (onboarding, transfers, offboarding), RBAC/SCIM provisioning, and policy enforcement across core systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian.
• Define and measure SLOs for internal services; create dashboards, alerts, and runbooks; participate in incident response and on-call for enterprise platforms.
• Partner with Security, Finance, Legal, and Procurement to implement SaaS governance, license optimization, and risk controls—codifying processes into auditable, testable workflows.
• Deliver cross-functional initiatives end-to-end: author clear specs, align stakeholders, de-risk launches, and land durable outcomes with strong documentation.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Identity and access management

SSO SAML OIDC

SCIM provisioning

RBAC ABAC

Okta integration

Google Workspace

Slack integration

Atlassian tools

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Duolingo’s Enterprise Engineering team builds and operates internal platforms, identity systems, and automation to empower employee experiences. As a Senior Enterprise Engineer, you design high‑impact projects across identity and access, SaaS integrations, and lifecycle automation for the organization.

You will partner with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform teams to reduce toil, improve reliability, and codify policies into maintainable workflows and code.