Senior SRE - Scale & Automate with Equity

Socket.dev; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product and platform teams to ensure our distributed systems are built and operated with exceptional quality. You will contribute to reliability, scalability, and velocity across services used by hundreds of millions of users.

We offer competitive compensation with equity and a salary range disclosed in the posting. This role emphasizes incident response, tooling, and collaboration across engineering teams to release robust

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within site reliability engineering/DevOps of a product with millions of users.
• 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)

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

SRE/DevOps

Distributed systems

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Mesos

Nomad

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Mesos

Nomad

Job description

Duolingo is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product and platform teams to ensure our distributed systems are built and operated with exceptional quality. You will contribute to reliability, scalability, and velocity across services used by hundreds of millions of users.

We offer competitive compensation with equity and a salary range disclosed in the posting. This role emphasizes incident response, tooling, and collaboration across engineering teams to release robust