Duolingo

Platform Engineer II

Duolingo$153K — $207K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in production environments with strong problem-solving skills
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals like networking and service communication
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
  • Proficiency with infrastructure management tools like Terraform
  • Fluent in Linux system administration and automation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documentation and collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core compute primitives for Kubernetes-based production workloads
  • Enhance the delivery pipeline using GitOps for safer, faster rollouts
  • Establish service level objectives (SLOs) and maintain operational dashboards and alerts
  • Create reusable abstractions for effective self-service platform capabilities
  • Engage in incident response and on-call duties to ensure platform reliability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee well-being program
  • Equity compensation as part of salary package
  • Supportive and accommodating interview process for all candidates
Full Job Description
About the role...

As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you'll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers.

The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence.

You will...
  • Build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, across different regions and cloud providers.
  • Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production by evolving our GitOps and deployment patterns, making rollouts safer and faster.
  • Raise the operational bar: define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response to keep the platform dependable.
  • Enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions.

You have...
  • Strong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environments.
  • Experience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts).
  • Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work).
  • Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills-comfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teams.
  • Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation

☆ Exceptional candidates will have...
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
  • Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliable.
  • Experience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies).


The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!

Salary Range:

$153,000-$207,000 USD

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About Duolingo

Duolingo is a language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. The company was founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. Duolingo offers courses in over 40 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese. The platform is free to use, but users can pay for additional features. Duolingo has won numerous awards for its innovative approach to language learning.
Learn more about Duolingo
Size
400 employees
Market Cap
$2.7 billion
Industry
Founded
2011
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