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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Duolingo's roles stay open a median of 38 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Duolingo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Duolingo
- high 41 stale, 6 reposted of 89 open
- Hiring momentum
- 119 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Duolingo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Duolingo.
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo, you will collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to ensure the quality and scalability of distributed systems. Your role involves diagnosing issues, supporting core infrastructure, and implementing improvements for reliability and automation. You will also engage in system design consulting and maintain incident response practices while working on a variety of impactful projects.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Duolingo as an employer.
What you need
- 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)
Nice to have
- 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
Worth weighing
- Salary range is dependent on various factors and subject to change; base salary supplemented by equity compensation
- No specific benefits listed in the posting; candidates should inquire for details
- Role involves working with sophisticated distributed systems, which may require a steep learning curve
Summarised from Duolingo's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Duolingo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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