Platform Engineer II
$153k/y-$207k/y
Duolingo2 days ago
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Summary
Duolingo is seeking a Platform Engineer II to join their Compute team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role focuses on improving the reliability and efficiency of the compute platform that powers Duolingo's applications.
About the Role
As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you will build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production, define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.
About You
Required:
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environments.
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts).
- Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work).
- Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Clear written and verbal communication skills—comfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teams.
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation.
Preferred:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliable.
- Experience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies).
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $153k–$207k.
- Equity compensation and world-class benefits.
Duolingo
Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. We set out to do something altogether different in the learning space. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it should be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. Learning a new language can also be expensive, and because we believe it should be free, we made it so. Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), among others.
Pittsburgh, PA