Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Drive Capital; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work with product and platform teams to keep distributed systems reliable, scalable and observable. You will help design resilient platforms, diagnose complex issues in production, and drive improvements across services.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience with large-scale systems, proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Python/Go, and strong familiarity with containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams to identify instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence.
• Support core infrastructure, diagnose and debug in production.
• Provide system design consulting and conduct launch reviews and root cause analysis.
• Maintain postmortem/incident response practices and document them.
• Improve reliability, scalability and velocity through changes.
• Develop tooling to reduce toil and automate repetitive tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering to release new features and become a services authority.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java/Kotlin/Python/Go

Container orchestration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Mesos

Nomad

Job description

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

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.

Salary Range

$182,800 - $247,300 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 [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.