Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Global, Scalable Systems

Duolingo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product and platform teams to keep large distributed systems reliable and scalable. You will design, implement, and operate high-availability services with a focus on automation, incident response, and performance engineering.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering teams, hands-on debugging, and driving improvements to reduce toil while delivering resilient, scalable infrastructure for

Qualifications

• 5+ years in site reliability engineering/DevOps for a product with millions of users.
• Experience diagnosing issues in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

DevOps

Distributed systems

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Container orchestration

Incident response

Automation tooling

Databases (DynamoDB/MySQL/PostgreSQL)

Docker

Mesos

Kubernetes

Nomad

Tools

Docker

Mesos

Kubernetes

Nomad

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product and platform teams to keep large distributed systems reliable and scalable. You will design, implement, and operate high-availability services with a focus on automation, incident response, and performance engineering.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering teams, hands-on debugging, and driving improvements to reduce toil while delivering resilient, scalable infrastructure for