Duolingo
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
$183K–$247K
New York, NY +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Pittsburgh, PA
New York, New York, United States
About the job
Partners with product and platform engineering teams to build, maintain, and operate reliable, scalable distributed systems and products.
What you'll do
- Identify instability in distributed systems and support core infrastructure in production.
- Consult on system design, develop platforms and automation, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analysis.
- Maintain incident response and postmortem practices and improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
What they ask for
- Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go.
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
Nice to have
- Experience improving automation and tooling to reduce service maintenance toil.
- Experience improving incident response processes or assessing reliability and troubleshooting Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases.
Pay
$182,800 — $247,300 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad
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