# Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo

- Company: Duolingo
- What the company does: Learn languages by playing a game. It. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, NEA and USV.
- Company website: https://www.duolingo.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8784381002?gh_jid=8784381002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/duolingo-senior-site-reliability-engineer-2/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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)
- 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

Tags: DevOps