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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Duolingo
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Posted
16 days ago
Department
DevOps
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 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)
Nice to have
  • Experience in improving automation and tooling to reduce service maintenance toil
  • Proven experience driving improvements to incident response processes
  • Experience assessing reliability and troubleshooting issues in Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases
What the job really is

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo, you will collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to ensure the quality and scalability of distributed systems. Your role involves diagnosing and debugging production systems, advocating for reliability improvements, and developing automation tools to reduce operational toil. You will also participate in system design consulting and conduct incident response practices.

Things to weigh
  • Salary range provided but is subject to change and depends on various factors; no specific benefits listed in detail.
  • Role involves significant collaboration and may require handling complex technical challenges.
  • The position emphasizes operational excellence and may involve high-pressure situations due to the scale of the user base.
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