Senior Platform Engineer
About the Role
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 finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes — while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
As a Platform Engineer on the CI/CD team you will have direct impact on the work of our entire engineering organization, and will help ensure our platform is always available for our learners.
The CI/CD team builds and maintains the automated pipelines that power our software development lifecycle. We're responsible for ensuring the rapid, reliable, and secure delivery of our products, from code commit to production deployment. You will play a key role in optimizing and scaling these pipelines, enabling our engineers to ship features quickly and confidently while maintaining the highest quality standards.
You will...
- Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we're building infrastructure that is reliable, secure and cost efficient.
- Streamline operational and development practices, making sure we provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
- Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and properly manage our capacity.
You have...
- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and technical innovation.
- Technical experience in distributed systems, including: databases, caching, inter-service communication, networking, and cloud services.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Relevant work experience, including industry experience.
- Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and 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 related technical field
- Experience managing a large infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud
- Extensive experience with relational and no-SQL database management
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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.
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