Senior Platform Engineer

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About the role

As an Engineer in the Infrastructure Platform area, you will have direct impact on the work of our entire engineering organization, and will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our products.

We have opportunities on one of our core Infrastructure Platform team:

• The Cloud Operations team is responsible for all of our infrastructure, and focuses primarily on making sure engineering teams have all the tools and support they need to build features our learners love. You will use and develop innovative tools to enable growth and stability across all Duolingo services and platforms. You will also act as an advisor for how to best apply these tools internally to accurately deploy, manage, monitor, and control the costs of production services.

You will...

• Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
• Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
• Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.

You have...

• Design and implement tools that help engineering teams focus on shipping features, while making sure we build infrastructure that is cost-efficient, secure and reliable.
• Streamline operational and development practices in order to provide an effective self-service platform to other Duolingo engineers.
• Monitor our infrastructure and develop strategies to keep our costs within budget and manage our capacity.

Requirements...

• Relevant work experience, including industry experience.
• Experience with one or more configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) or infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with containerization runtimes (Docker, rkt)
• Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automation

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Extensive experience in fast-growing, consumer-facing, data-driven startups, ideally mobile app-based.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Experience running a large infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud
• Confirmed ability to navigate highly regulated networking environments (cross-border traffic optimization, multi-region cloud architecture)

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