Senior Platform Engineer
Duolingo
Senior Platform Engineer
Job Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role
As an Engineer in the Infrastructure Platform area, you will have direct impact on the work of our entire engineering organization, and will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our products.
We have opportunities on one of our core Infrastructure Platform team:
- The Cloud Operations team is responsible for all of our infrastructure, and focuses primarily on making sure engineering teams have all the tools and support they need to build features our learners love. You will use and develop innovative tools to enable growth and stability across all Duolingo services and platforms. You will also act as an advisor for how to best apply these tools internally to accurately deploy, manage, monitor, and control the costs of production services.
You will...
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.
You have...
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.
Requirements...
- Relevant work experience, including industry experience.
- Experience with one or more configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) or infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Experience running a large infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud
- Confirmed ability to navigate highly regulated networking environments (cross-border traffic optimization, multi-region cloud architecture)
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Locations
- Beijing Shi, China, United States
Salary
Salary details available upon request
180,000 - 280,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)intermediate
- infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)intermediate
- containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)intermediate
- Linux system administration and automationintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Relevant work experience, including industry experience (experience)
- Experience with one or more configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) or infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) (experience)
- Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt) (experience)
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based (experience)
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (experience)
- Experience running a large infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud (experience)
- Confirmed ability to navigate highly regulated networking environments (cross-border traffic optimization, multi-region cloud architecture) (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity
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Senior Platform Engineer
Duolingo
Senior Platform Engineer
Job Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
Read our blog to learn more.
About the role
As an Engineer in the Infrastructure Platform area, you will have direct impact on the work of our entire engineering organization, and will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our products.
We have opportunities on one of our core Infrastructure Platform team:
- The Cloud Operations team is responsible for all of our infrastructure, and focuses primarily on making sure engineering teams have all the tools and support they need to build features our learners love. You will use and develop innovative tools to enable growth and stability across all Duolingo services and platforms. You will also act as an advisor for how to best apply these tools internally to accurately deploy, manage, monitor, and control the costs of production services.
You will...
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.
You have...
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.
Requirements...
- Relevant work experience, including industry experience.
- Experience with one or more configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) or infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Experience running a large infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud
- Confirmed ability to navigate highly regulated networking environments (cross-border traffic optimization, multi-region cloud architecture)
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sign up for job alerts here.
Locations
- Beijing Shi, China, United States
Salary
Salary details available upon request
180,000 - 280,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)intermediate
- infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)intermediate
- containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)intermediate
- Linux system administration and automationintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Relevant work experience, including industry experience (experience)
- Experience with one or more configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) or infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) (experience)
- Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt) (experience)
- Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based (experience)
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (experience)
- Experience running a large infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud (experience)
- Confirmed ability to navigate highly regulated networking environments (cross-border traffic optimization, multi-region cloud architecture) (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable
- Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity
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Answer 10 quick questions to check your fit for Senior Platform Engineer @ Duolingo.
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