Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Duolingo; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 183 000 - 247 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Duolingo is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work with product and platform teams to ensure Duolingo’s distributed systems are built and operated with high quality and scalability.

You will collaborate across teams to diagnose production issues, design robust platforms, and lead postmortem practices while improving tooling and automation to reduce toil. This role targets ambitious professionals ready to help power Duolingo’s global learner base.

Qualifications

• Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go.
• Understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad).

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with internal teams to identify instability and drive operational excellence.
• Support core infrastructure, diagnose, and debug production systems.
• Provide system design consulting, develop platforms/frameworks, and conduct root cause analyses.
• Maintain and document postmortem/incident response practices.
• Advocate for and implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and velocity.
• Reduce toil by developing tooling and automation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to release new features and become an authority on services.

Connaissances

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Outils

Docker

Mesos

Kubernetes

Nomad

Description du poste

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

At Duolingo, you'll 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. You'll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes - while doing work that’s 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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with both product and platform engineering teams to ensure Duolingo’s sophisticated distributed systems and products are built and maintained with extraordinary quality, and operated in measurable and scalable ways.

You will

• Collaborate with internal teams to identify sources of instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence
• Support 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

You have

• Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go
• An understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc)

Exceptional candidates will have

• 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 Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases

Salary Range

$182,800-$247,300 USD

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 [e-mail].

Equal Employment Opportunity

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.