Senior Site Reliability Engineering

New York, NYfull timeOn Site

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senior

$183k–$247k

H1B: yes

Duolingo Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo ensures reliability and scalability of distributed systems supporting millions of users. Collaborates with product and platform teams to improve operational excellence and reduce toil through automation.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with both product and platform engineering teams to ensure Duolingo’s sophisticated distributed systems and products are built and maintained with extraordinary quality, and operated in measurable and scalable ways.
Collaborate with internal teams to identify sources of instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence
Support core infrastructure (i.e understand, diagnose, and debug these systems in production)
Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms/frameworks, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analysis
Maintain and document sustainable postmortem/incident response practices
Advocate for and implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and velocity
Reduce the burden of toil with iterative development of tooling and automation
Collaborate with engineering teams to release new features and become an authority on our services
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)

Qualification

Experience with Java

Required

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
Understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad)

Preferred

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

Benefits

Equity/RSU

Company

Duolingo

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