Senior Platform Engineer
$182800/y-$247300/y
Duolingo2 days ago
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Summary
Duolingo is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their team in Pittsburgh, PA. The role involves improving the compute platform to ensure reliability at scale for users and engineers.
About the Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you will build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes. You will enhance the delivery pipeline, define SLOs, build dashboards, and enable effective self-service for product engineers.
About You
Required:
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering solutions in production environments.
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals and production systems.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure management tools.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration.
Preferred:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience managing production infrastructure on major cloud platforms.
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures.
- Experience with service mesh or zero-trust networking patterns.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $182.8k–$247.3k.
- 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