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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Duolingo
Location
New York, NY
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 issues, supporting core infrastructure, and implementing improvements for reliability and automation. You will also engage in system design consulting and maintain incident response practices while working on a variety of impactful projects.

Things to weigh
  • Salary range is dependent on various factors and subject to change; base salary supplemented by equity compensation
  • No specific benefits listed in the posting; candidates should inquire for details
  • Role involves working with sophisticated distributed systems, which may require a steep learning curve
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