Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Scale & Automation

Duolingo; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo, a leader in education technology, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work with product and platform teams to keep its distributed systems reliable and scalable with measurable quality. You will own reliability across services, drive operational excellence, and contribute to the design of robust software platforms.

The role requires experience reducing toil, improving automation, and guiding incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in site reliability engineering or DevOps for products with millions of users.
• Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go, and containerization/orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable services.
• Identify instability sources and drive operational excellence across systems.
• Diagnose production issues, runbooks, postmortems, and incident response.
• Provide system design consulting and contribute to tooling and automation.
• Support core infrastructure and release new features with reliability in mind.
• Reduce toil by improving automation and monitoring.
• Be the go-to expert for services and runbooks across engineering teams.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Distributed systems

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Mesos

Nomad

Job description

Duolingo, a leader in education technology, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work with product and platform teams to keep its distributed systems reliable and scalable with measurable quality. You will own reliability across services, drive operational excellence, and contribute to the design of robust software platforms.

The role requires experience reducing toil, improving automation, and guiding incident response.